Essays about: "Kerouac"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word Kerouac.
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1. Jack Kerouac’s Poetics : Repetition, Language, and Narration in Letters from 1947 to 1956
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : 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
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2. On the Road to "IT" : Kerouac and Spontaneity
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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3. On the Road to "IT" : Kerouac and Spontaneity
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4. Resistance Through Space : A Comparative Study of Narrative and Space in Naked Lunch and On the Road
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : 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
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5. On the Road to the Market : Kerouac, Revisions, and Market Forces
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : 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
