Beat Writers

As Stephen and company become lost in the
seas of postmodernism, they question the big
mysteries of life including a loss of self in the
modern world, the reality and nature of God, and
a resolution to the search of meaning in a world
thrown into chaos. With this article, we continue our voyage through the ...

With use of the metaphor Helios, Joyce describes the journey of Stephen Dedalus as he
encounters the waters of the wayward winds, and
the formless world of modernity portrayed by the
wandering rocks circling around the outer boundaries of space-time.

When I first heard of the death of Hunter S.
Thompson, I had a desire to write an essay expressing thoughts on the memory of his passing.
Since this is a page dedicated to the writings of
the Beats, it seemed only appropriate to remember
Thompson, but the more I thought about his death,
the harder ...

In the first half of the twentieth century,
James Joyce composed one of the most influential
novels in the history of the literary canon. The
novel begins with the journey of a wanderer. This journey is portrayed against a backdrop of
time moving within the boundaries of imagination.
This sixth article of a larger series looks ...

As can be seen in the previous four articles,
James Joyce took the novel to new heights, and
carried the mind of the reader to places where he
or she had never been taken before, by re-telling
an old story in a new place and time. This article is the fifth in a series looking ...

This fourth in a series studying the novel
Ulysses, begins a study of the first chapter.
Stephen is introduced, and the reader sees him
struggling in the next phase of his intellectual
journey: that of the transformation from student
to artist.

Time moves through the pages of Ulysses as
the feathers of an arrow spinning in the currents
of a windstorm, but this great author managed to
hit his mark. Part three delves a little deeper
into the analysis of Ulysses.

If you hang out at City Lights Bookstore
long enough, sooner or later, you will have
to know about Ulysses. This article continues
to examine the elements working inside this
famous novel, what they mean, and the reasons
for the novel becoming banned on the American
shores in the l930's.

There was certainly a great deal happening
in Greenwich Village during the heyday of a beat
cultural scene that took years to develope. Why
do such artistic scenes suddenly appear, and then
so mysteriously disappear at the seemingly height
of their popularity. This article will look at
the reasons for the rise and fall of artistic
scenes, and ...

When James Joyce created his novel, "Ulysses", he is said to have written
the best novel of the twentieth century. The only problem with the book was that it had so
many literary connotations for the average reader
to understand. "Ulysses" is the type of book
that literary persons are fond of discussing at
coffee ...