Diploma Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1, Klagenfurt University (American Culture Studies), language: English, abstract: This scientific work reveals the truth about the most controversial avant-garde movement of the 20th century: The Beat Generation. Detailed syntheses on the life and work of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs & Co. Without the Beat Generation there would be no modernism in the contemporary world of arts and letters. Learn to look at the world in the visionary way of beat philosophy.