{"product_id":"the-bop-apocalypse-the-religious-visions-of-kerouac-ginsberg-and-burroughs-9780252025990","title":"The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac  Ginsberg  and Burroughs","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlending biography  cultural history  and literary criticism  The Bop Apocalypse explores the religious concerns  metaphysical realities  and spiritual pursuits that undergirded the early friendship and literary collaborations of Jack Kerouac  Allen Ginsberg  and William S. Burroughs.  Presenting a religious biography of the Beats from the mid-1940s to the late 1950s  John Lardas shows that in rejecting many of the cultural tenets of postwar America  Kerouac  Ginsberg  and Burroughs created new visions of both self and country  visions they articulated through distinctive literary forms. Lardas examines how the Beat writers distilled a theology of experience--a religious vision that animated their everyday existence as well as their art--from a flurry of disparate influences that included the saxophone wails of Charlie Parker and Lester Young  the psychology of Wilhelm Reich  the linguistic theories of Alfred Korzybski  the hipster dialects of New York City  and especially the prophecies of Oswald Spengler. Revisiting the major works the Beats produced in the 1950s in terms of critical content  Lardas considers how their lived religion was incorporated into the way they wrote.  The first sustained treatment of Beat religiosity  The Bop Apocalypse takes a sophisticated look beyond the cartoonish reductions of the Beat counterculture. The Bop Apocalypse takes the Beats at face value  interpreting their sexual openness  drug use  criminality  compulsion to travel  and madness as the logical  physical enactments of a religious representation of the world. Far from dallying irrelevantly on the fringes of society  Lardas asserts  the Beats engaged America on moral grounds through the discourse of public religion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666197635125,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252025997","price":85.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252025990.jpg?v=1782422560","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bop-apocalypse-the-religious-visions-of-kerouac-ginsberg-and-burroughs-9780252025990","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}