Erik Mortenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Mortenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Mortenson |
| SIGNATURE | MORTENSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making the Past Present
This chapter examines a central motif that runs throughout Kerouac’s corpus – the desire to capture the events of the past in a literary form that lends them affective force in the present. In novels like Doctor Sax , among many others, Kerouac relied on Spontaneous Prose to infuse the earlier occurrences of his life with renewed vigor and immediacy, resulting in works that challenge the more staid narrative styles of memoir or autobiography. At …
David Stephen Calonne, Diane Di Prima
David Stephen Calonne, Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. 313. ISBN 978-1-5013-4290-5. Erik Mortenson To claim that Diane Di Prima deserves more attention is a gross understatement. Poet, activist, scholar, publisher, translator, and teacher, Di Prima was intimately involved in some of the major literary and cultural movements of the second half of the 20th century, from the Beat and avant-…
Antonín Zita, How We Understand the Beats
Antonín Zita, How We Understand the Beats: The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2018. Pp. 200. ISBN 978-80-210-9048-4. Erik Mortenson The label “Beat” means many different things to many different people. So how do you make sense of a group of writers who exist as both a global social phenomenon and a multi-generational literary movement? Antonín Zita attempts to answer this qu…
Diagnosing the National Neurosis
This paper examines the attempt by the Turkish underground journal Şizofrengi (1992–98) to provide a space for psychiatrists, artists, and mental patients to voice their personal concerns as a means to critique problems in Turkish society. Şizofrengi was founded by young psychiatrists in order to critique the problems they felt were endemic to their field. Rejecting the institutional practices and assumptions the editors found constraining in the…
Underground literature and its influence on youth in Turkey
This paper examines the impact underground literature (yeraltı edebiyatı) has on influencing the opinions and beliefs of Turkey’s youth regarding issues of contemporary importance. In order to understand the relevance of this genre to Turkish youth culture, we have not only examined the debate surrounding the topic in popular and academic circles, but also asked the readers themselves their opinions about their experience with the genre (in both …
The Ghost of Humanism
This article examines the use of shadow, blur, graininess, and reflection in the work of the postwar photographers Robert Frank, William Klein, and Ralph Eugene Meatyard as a response to the rhetoric of Cold War containment. In contrast to the more comforting images in Edward Steichen’s popular exhibit The Family of Man, which sought to downplay Cold War anxieties, the photographs of Frank, Klein, and Meatyard challenged viewer expectation by pre…
The 'Underground' Reception of the Beats in Turkey
This article examines how Beat texts are received in Turkey as underground literature and what that reception reveals not only about the possibilities for cultural dissent in Turkey, but the extent to which the Beats are still capable of promoting social change in general. While translations of Beat Generation texts are a fairly recent phenomenon in Turkey, the internet has provided them with additional exposure, with the result that Beat texts p…
The 'Underground' Reception of the Beats in Turkey
This article examines how Beat texts are received in Turkey as underground literature and what that reception reveals not only about the possibilities for cultural dissent in Turkey, but the extent to which the Beats are still capable of promoting social change in general. While translations of Beat Generation texts are a fairly recent phenomenon in Turkey, the internet has provided them with additional exposure, with the result that Beat texts p…
The 'Underground' Reception of the Beats in Turkey
This article examines how Beat texts are received in Turkey as underground literature and what that reception reveals not only about the possibilities for cultural dissent in Turkey, but the extent to which the Beats are still capable of promoting social change in general. While translations of Beat Generation texts are a fairly recent phenomenon in Turkey, the internet has provided them with additional exposure, with the result that Beat texts p…
The Ghost of Humanism
This article examines the use of shadow, blur, graininess, and reflection in the work of the postwar photographers Robert Frank, William Klein, and Ralph Eugene Meatyard as a response to the rhetoric of Cold War containment. In contrast to the more comforting images in Edward Steichen’s popular exhibit The Family of Man, which sought to downplay Cold War anxieties, the photographs of Frank, Klein, and Meatyard challenged viewer expectation by pre…
Diagnosing the National Neurosis
This paper examines the attempt by the Turkish underground journal Şizofrengi (1992–98) to provide a space for psychiatrists, artists, and mental patients to voice their personal concerns as a means to critique problems in Turkish society. Şizofrengi was founded by young psychiatrists in order to critique the problems they felt were endemic to their field. Rejecting the institutional practices and assumptions the editors found constraining in the…
Underground literature and its influence on youth in Turkey
This paper examines the impact underground literature (yeraltı edebiyatı) has on influencing the opinions and beliefs of Turkey’s youth regarding issues of contemporary importance. In order to understand the relevance of this genre to Turkish youth culture, we have not only examined the debate surrounding the topic in popular and academic circles, but also asked the readers themselves their opinions about their experience with the genre (in both …
Antonín Zita, How We Understand the Beats
Antonín Zita, How We Understand the Beats: The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2018. Pp. 200. ISBN 978-80-210-9048-4. Erik Mortenson The label “Beat” means many different things to many different people. So how do you make sense of a group of writers who exist as both a global social phenomenon and a multi-generational literary movement? Antonín Zita attempts to answer this qu…
David Stephen Calonne, Diane Di Prima
David Stephen Calonne, Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. 313. ISBN 978-1-5013-4290-5. Erik Mortenson To claim that Diane Di Prima deserves more attention is a gross understatement. Poet, activist, scholar, publisher, translator, and teacher, Di Prima was intimately involved in some of the major literary and cultural movements of the second half of the 20th century, from the Beat and avant-…
Making the Past Present
This chapter examines a central motif that runs throughout Kerouac’s corpus – the desire to capture the events of the past in a literary form that lends them affective force in the present. In novels like Doctor Sax , among many others, Kerouac relied on Spontaneous Prose to infuse the earlier occurrences of his life with renewed vigor and immediacy, resulting in works that challenge the more staid narrative styles of memoir or autobiography. At …
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