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Beat Generation

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In literature, Beat Generation means: A mid-twentieth-century group of writers challenging conformity through experimental writing and unconventional lives.

In Turkish: Beat Kuşağı

How it is used

Use in American literary history for a specific group and its influence, not all rebellious young writers.

Example sentences

  1. The Beat Generation seminar focused on spoken rhythms and resistance to conventional success.

    The discussion connects language choices with a challenge to social expectations.

  2. Our essay compares a Beat Generation travel narrative with an earlier tale of personal growth.

    The comparison tests how journeys serve different literary aims.

Common collocations

  • Beat Generation writers
  • Beat Generation literature
  • literary movementA group of writers in a particular period who share similar ideas, styles and aims, such as Romanticism, Realism or Modernism.
  • narrativeA story or account of connected events, and the way it is told; also used as an adjective for anything that tells a story.

More terms: Literary Movements

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