A project assessing the Rare Book Collection’s holdings of the English-language monographs of Beat Generation poet and author Gregory Corso. Includes an overview of the Beat Generation and Corso’s role in it, a brief history of the Rare Book Collection’s Beat Generation collection, and a discussion of the role and purpose of collection analysis. Includes also an original bibliography of Corso’s monographs, compiled for the purpose of the study.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

My thesis explores the role of religion and spirituality in the work of the Beat Generation, a mid-twentieth century American literary movement. I focus on four major Beat authors: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso. Through a close reading of their work, I identify the major religious and spiritual attitudes that shape their texts. All four authors’ religious and spiritual beliefs form a challenge to the Modern Western worldview of rationality, embracing systems of belief which allow for experiences that cannot be empirically explained. They also assert the primacy of the individual—a major American value—in a society which the authors believed to encroach upon individual agency. Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Corso are also strongly influenced by established religious traditions: an aspect of their work that is currently overlooked in Beat criticism. Burroughs’ belief in a magical universe shapes his work. Ginsberg is heavily influenced by the Jewish exegetical tradition. Kerouac and Corso’s work contains Catholic themes. My study rectifies some tendencies in current criticism which I find problematic: a dismissal of the Beats as a countercultural phenomenon rather than a literary movement, a tendency to frame Beat religion and spirituality in vague language, and a tendency to focus solely on Buddhism within the movement. My study illustrates that the Beat authors’ work contains serious religious and spiritual content, that they take part in American religious and literary traditions, and that the authors engage with major social issues of the post-war period.

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Adottando l’approccio della sociologia del corso di vita allo studio delle traiettorie occupazionali, la ricerca analizza comparativamente i percorsi di fine carriera di individui 50-67enni in Europa. Lo studio si focalizza su un’analisi esplorativa dei percorsi di fine carriera e sull’analisi delle influenze esercitate dai contesti istituzionali, da comportamenti e attitudini gestionali di imprenditori e manager, dalle caratteristiche individuali sui late-career pattern. Dunque, la ricerca nel complesso include tre livelli: a) macro-sociale, sistemi di welfare e di produzione; b) micro-sociale, caratteristiche individuali; c) meso-sociale, pratiche gestionali d’impresa. La mia ipotesi è che le pratiche di age management si sviluppino secondo logiche coerenti con le strategie macro di gestione dell’occupazione degli anziani e che siano tipiche a livello di regimi di welfare/di produzione. Per rispondere alle domande di ricerca sono state applicate tecniche di analisi statistica monovariata e multivariata ai dati: 1) SHARE: Survey sulla salute, l’invecchiamento e il pensionamento in Europa, che analizza le biografie occupazionali di individui over50 in 19 paesi europei; 2) ASPA: Survey Activating Senior Potential in Europe che analizza attitudini comportamenti dei datori di lavoro nei confronti del lavoratori anziani. I paesi inclusi nello studio sono: Germania, Polonia, Svezia, Danimarca, Italia e Olanda. / By adopting the institution and agency-centered approach of the sociological life-course theories, the research analyses late career patterns of 50-67 years old individuals across Europe. I am in particular interested in understanding the prevalent late-career patterns in different countries and the influences exerted on them by institutional contexts, employers’/managers’ attitudes and behaviors and individual characteristics. So, overall, I consider three levels: the macro-social level (institutional context: welfare and productive regime), the micro-social level (individual characteristics) and the meso-social level (companies practices). My hypothesis is that age management practices are in line with macro institutional employment strategies for the older workforce and that they are typical at the level of welfare/production regimes. The empirical analysis consists of mono e multivariate statistical analysis using these data sources: 1) the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, on 50 years old individuals’ life courses in 19 countries all over Europe; 2) the Activating Senior Potential in Europe survey, on employers’ attitudes and behavior towards older workers in different EU countries. The countries included in my comparative study are: Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands.

The diploma thesis Jan Zábrana, translator and poet - translating poetry while inspired by it? examines the relationship between the original works of Jan Zábrana and his translations, taking into account the similar thematic and formal inclinations of all the authors and the sociocultural context, preventing Jan Zábrana from publishing his own poetry. Based on the analysis of three variants of Zábrana's poem collections Utkvělé černé ikony, Stránky z deníku and Samosoud and his translations of poems by Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso and Kenneth Patchen, the thesis aims at finding the tendencies and models present both in Zábrana's original poems and his translations.