{"id":5118,"date":"2017-10-23T05:12:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T05:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/should-there-be-university-courses-on-beat-generation-authors\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T05:12:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T05:12:16","slug":"should-there-be-university-courses-on-beat-generation-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/should-there-be-university-courses-on-beat-generation-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Should There be University Courses on Beat Generation Authors?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a longer essay<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I've read my fair share of [William S. ] Burroughs and I concur [with Patrick Kurp<\/a>] that his stuff is trash: Junkie, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Exterminator.<\/em>  All in my library.  But there is a place for literary trash.  It has its uses as do the pathologist's  slides and samples.  But put on your mental gloves before handling the stuff. <\/span><\/p>\n

Kerouac alone of the Beat Triumvirate [Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs] moves me, though I surely don't consider him a great writer.  In fact, I would go so far as to say that there really shouldn't be any university courses on Kerouac or Dylan or other culturally influential recent figures since their material is easily accessible and easily understandable.  Universities ought not pander. They should remain — or rather return to being — institutions whose sacred task is the preservation and transmission of HIGH culture, great culture, culture which is not easily understood and requires expert guidance to penetrate and appreciate.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The thought is extended in Inheritance and Appropriation<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am but a vox clamantis in deserto<\/em>. You will be forgiven for thinking me a superannuated idealistic sermonizer out of touch with current events and trends. <\/span>The West may be finished, and my preaching useless.   The barbarians are at the gates and the destructive Left is eager to let them in. The authorities are in abdication. The Pope is a fool: a leftist first, a Catholic second. Leftist termites have rotted out the foundations of the universities. <\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, it ain't over til it's over.  So we battle on.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a longer essay: I've read my fair share of [William S. ] Burroughs and I concur [with Patrick Kurp] that his stuff is trash: Junkie, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Exterminator.  All in my library.  But there is a place for literary trash.  It has its uses as do the pathologist's  slides and samples.  But … Continue reading “Should There be University Courses on Beat Generation Authors?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,180,202,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-decline-of-the-west","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}