12) The Beats, 1950s and 1960s Flashcards
What is the periodization of The Beats?
1950s and early 1960s
What is The Beats about?
rebellion against mainstream society and culture, advocating personal freedom, spontaneity, and rejection of materialism
Who was the first to use the term The Beat Generation?
Kerouac
Where is the early history of the Beat generation captured?
in Go by Holmes
Who belongs to the Beat generation?
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs
Which author published many of the Beat poets, yet distances himself from the Beat Generation?
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Name two collections of poems written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Coney Island of the Mind, Little Boy
Jack Kerouac
On the Road, Visions of Cody
William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Hapworth 16 1924
Which of J. D. Salinger’s works is about the fictional Glass family?
Franny and Zooey
Which of J. D. Salinger’s works is a novella and his last published work?
Hapworth 16, 1924
Which 1950s author is a classic of the sci-fi genre?
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
The Martian Cronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, Green Shadows White Whale
Flannery O’Connor
Everything That Rises Must Converge, Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, A Good Man is Hard to Find
What is A Good Man is Hard to Find and when was it published?
a short story, first published in 1953
What is the setting in A Good Man is Hard to Find?
rural South, likely Georgia, in the mid 20-th century, family preparing for a vacation
What is the tragic ending in A Good Man is Hard to Find?
Misfit, an escaped convict, kills the whole family
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
When was Lolita published?
1955
Who narrates Lolita and who is his main interest?
Humbert Humbert, Dolores Haze
How does Lolita end?
Lolita runs away with another man, Humbert is devastated, eventually he is captured and imprisoned and confesses his crimes
Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman, To Kill a Mockingbird
When was To Kill a Mockingbird published and what is its setting?
1960, fictional town of Maycomb Alabama during the 1930s
Who narrates To Kill a Mockingbird?
Jean Louise “Scout” Finch
What are the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird?
racial injustice, inequality in the American South, moral complexities of right and wrong, the importance of empathy and understanding
Truman Capote
In Cold Blood, Other Voices Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on a Train, Talented Mr Ripley, The Price of Salt
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Which Truman Capote’s novel is a semiautobiographical novel about a boy who loses his mother?
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Which book is a psychological thriller about two men arranging to commit murders each on the other’s behalf and who wrote it?
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Which 1950s author is a Russian born writer and philosopher?
Ayn Rand
