Friday, January 20, 2012

Notes (1/20/2012)

Beat movement & modernist movement:
 - experimentalism: obscene descriptions
 - rejection of tradition/institutions
 - stream on conciousness, no narrative
 - requires sacrifice
 - alienation for selves

 - saw culture becoming materialistic/conformist
 - after WWII
 - USA emerging as a world power
 - threat of commmunism
 - HUAAC: House of UnAmerican Activites Commity -- McCarthy
 - Counter-culture: cultivate eccentricity, sexual freedon, religious difference, vulgar language, anti-government, madness, hallowness

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