Essays about: "Jack Kerouac"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Jack Kerouac.

  1. 1. Jack Kerouac’s Poetics : Repetition, Language, and Narration in Letters from 1947 to 1956

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Nicholas Charles Baldwin; [2019]
    Keywords : Poetics; Letter Writing; Impressionism; Confessional; Repetition; Language; Vertical and Circular-Narration; Jack Kerouac; 1947-1956;

    Abstract : Despite the fame the prolific impressionistic, confessional poet, novelist, literary iconoclast, and pioneer of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, has acquired since the late 1950’s, his written letters are not recognized as works of literature.  The aim of this thesis is to examine the different ways in which Kerouac develops and employs the poetics he is most known for in the letters he wrote to friends and publishers before becoming a well-known literary figure. READ MORE

  3. 2. Resistance Through Space : A Comparative Study of Narrative and Space in Naked Lunch and On the Road

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Luca Pirro; [2016]
    Keywords : Beat; space; resistance; control; cut-up; travel narrative; Kerouac; Burroughs; Foucault;

    Abstract : This essay compares two influential novels from the Beat era, William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and how they use the spatial dimension of writing as a tool for resistance. The spatiality of Kerouac’s travel narrative is compared to the spatiality of Burroughs cut-up narrative, and the spaces of cities and the road are analyzed. READ MORE

  4. 3. On the Road to the Market : Kerouac, Revisions, and Market Forces

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Adam Kilic; [2015]
    Keywords : Kerouac; reification; dereification; On the Road; Visions of Cody; market; revision; Malcolm Cowley; Viking Press;

    Abstract : The publication of the thitherto unavailable original scroll of On the Road in 2007 marked a decisive point for Beat scholarship. Enabling line-by-line comparison, the two versions could suddenly be placed under proper scrutiny, and Kerouac’s revisions set up against the established myth of the novel’s creation. READ MORE

  5. 4. "A Nakedness of Mind": Gender, Individualism and Collectivism in Jack Kerouac's On the Road

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Julian Ekstrand; [2014]
    Keywords : Jack Kerouac; On the road; gender; sexuality; individualism; collectivism; beat; beat generation; post-war america; beatniks; a nakedness of mind;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on gender roles, individualism and collectivism in Jack Kerouac’s classic road-trip novel On the Road. In order to put the discussion into a meaningful context, I look at the novel from a historical perspective and examine how it relates to post-war American society. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Beat Goes On : Discourse, Power and Identity in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

    University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Christer Jäderlund; [2010]
    Keywords : Jack Kerouac; On the Road; Discourse; Beat; Suburbia;

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