Corso, Conformity, and Christmas Teeth

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dc.contributor.authorReese, Zachary
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.contributor.programBachelor's Degreeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-01T18:28:06Z
dc.date.available2016-04-01T18:28:06Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIn Professor Orem's English 105 course (entitled "Art in Social Activism"), we spent several weeks discussing the beat generation of the 1950s. Throughout our discussion of this epoch in American history, I was astonished and fascinated by how closely it paralleled modern American culture. The "non-conformist" has been a prominent figure in American society for decades, actively combatting the mundanity and conventionality of everyday life and introducing a new wave of thought (and effectively, a new way of life), for students and artists alike. It may be suggested that this figure first emerged in the 1950s, amongst Jack Keroac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and other prominent beatsters. It is only through a sixty year filter that we can clearly discern the revolutionary nature of the ideas expressed by these artists, as one may very easily identify with the sentiments expressed within their works, today. In my essay "Corso, Conformity, and Christmas Teeth" I analyze the effectiveness and potency of Corso's poem "Marriage" which epitomizes and perfectly captures the non-conformist culture of American society that began in the 1950s.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipLaura Oremen_US
dc.description.urihttp://blogs.goucher.edu/verge/10-2/en_US
dc.format.extent5 p.en_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.genreresearch articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M25M9T
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/2661
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVerge: the goucher journal of undergraduate writing;10
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dc.subjectResearch -- Periodicals.en_US
dc.subjectHumanities -- Research -- Periodicals.en_US
dc.subjectSocial sciences -- Research -- Periodicals.en_US
dc.titleCorso, Conformity, and Christmas Teethen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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