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Book Synopsis Jack Kerouac's On the Road by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book Jack Kerouac's On the Road written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents ten critical essays published between 1973 and 2001 on Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Download or read book On the Road written by Jack Kerouac and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.
Download or read book On the Road written by Jack Kerouac and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bible of the Beat Generation is a modern classic of the unforgettable exuberance, poignancy, and passion of the 1950s. It follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
Book Synopsis On the Road: The Original Scroll by : Jack Kerouac
Download or read book On the Road: The Original Scroll written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120 foot scroll, this document is among the most significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary American literary history. It represents the first full expression of Kerouac’s revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual arts in the post-World War II period. It was not until more than six years later, and several new drafts, that Viking published, in 1957, the novel known to us today. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road, Viking will publish the 1951 scroll in a standard book format. The differences between the two versions are principally ones of significant detail and altered emphasis. The scroll is slightly longer and has a heightened linguistic virtuosity and a more sexually frenetic tone. It also uses the real names of Kerouac’s friends instead of the fictional names he later invented for them. The transcription of the scroll was done by Howard Cunnell who, along with Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, and Penny Vlagopoulos, provides a critical introduction that explains the fascinating compositional and publication history of On the Road and anchors the text in its historical, political, and social context.
Download or read book Unterwegs written by Jack Kerouac and published by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dies ist das literarische Statement einer Jugend, die inmitten der «schlechtesten der Welten» ein leidenschaftliches Bekenntnis zum «glückseligen Leben» ablegte. Tempo, Jazz, Marihuana, Sex und Freiheit waren die Zauberwörter der Beat Generation, die ständig auf der Suche nach einem intensiven, rauscherfüllten Dasein war. Ihre Trampfahrten durch die ungeheuren Weiten des Landes ließen sie ein Amerika entdecken, das die bürgerliche Erfolgsmoral nicht kannte.
Book Synopsis What's Your Road, Man? by : Hilary Holladay
Download or read book What's Your Road, Man? written by Hilary Holladay and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining essays from renowned Kerouac experts and emerging scholars, What's Your Road, Man? draws on an enormous amount of research into the literary, social, cultural, biographical, and historical contexts of Kerouac's canonical novel. Since its publication in 1957, On the Road has remained in print and has continued to be one of the most widely read twentieth-century American novels.
Download or read book On the Road written by Jack Kerouac and published by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Kerouacs epochemachender Roman «On the Road» (deutsch: «Unterwegs») über eine Schar junger Menschen, die auf der Suche nach Wahrheit, der Liebe und dem glückseligen Leben quer durch die USA reisen, hat weltweit Generationen junger Leute inspiriert. Er gehört zu den seltenen Büchern des 20. Jahrhunderts, die nicht nur einen völlig neuen Ton anschlugen, sondern vom Geist einer neuen Zeit kündeten: Nahezu im Alleingang schuf «On the Road» mit der Beat-Generation eine der ersten großen amerikanischen Jugendbewegungen und inspirierte deren geistige Nachkommen, die Hippies. Kerouac tippte das Manuskript in drei schlaflosen Wochen mit Hilfe von viel Kaffee und Benzedrin auf eine vierzig Meter lange Papierrolle. Beim Verlag wurde es später stark bearbeitet, gekürzt und anonymisiert. Die hier zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch vorliegende Urfassung ist ein einziger, von Jazz und Marihuana inspirierter Energiestoß. Die Sprachmusik darin ist roher als in der Druckfassung, der Sex expliziter, die Figuren (u. a. Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs und der heimliche Held des Romans, der geniale Autodieb und Lebenskünstler Neal Cassidy) erscheinen mit Klarnamen. Übertragen wurde die Urfassung von Ulrich Blumenbach, der seit seiner Übersetzung von David Foster Wallace' Roman «Unendlicher Spa zu den wohl renommiertesten deutschen Literaturübersetzern gehört. The beat goes on, und der wilde Rausch, den er erzeugt, verfehlt auch nach 50 Jahren nicht seine Wirkung. Dieses Buch war und ist ein «literarisches Ereignis» (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).
Book Synopsis The View from On the Road by : Omar Swartz
Download or read book The View from On the Road written by Omar Swartz and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Omar Swartz argues that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's significance as a cultural icon can be best understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional rhetorical practices and principles. To Swartz, Kerouac is a rhetor who symbolically reconstructs his world and offers arguments and encouragements for others to follow. Swartz proposes that On the Road constitutes a "rhetorical vision," a reality-defining discourse suggesting alternative possibilities for growth and change. Swartz asserts that the reader of Kerouac's On theRoadbecomes capable of responding to the larger, confusing culture in a strategic manner. Kerouac's rhetorical vision of an alternative social and cultural reality contributes to the identity of localized cultures within the United States.
Book Synopsis Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's on the Road by : Stephanie Nikolopoulos
Download or read book Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's on the Road written by Stephanie Nikolopoulos and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by coffee and pea soup, Jack Kerouac speed-typed ""On the Road"" in just three weeks in April 1951. He'd been traveling America for the past ten years and now, at last, the furious energy of his experiences flowed through his fingertips in a mad rush, pealing forth on a makeshift scroll that he laboriously taped together. The ""On the Road scroll"" has since become literary legend, and now ""Burning Furiously Beautiful"" sets the record straight, uncovering, among other things, the true story behind one of America's greatest novels. ""Burning Furiously Beautiful"" explores the real lives of the key characters of the novel. Ride along on the real-life adventures through 1940s America that inspired ""On the Road."" By tracing the evolution of Kerouac's literary development and revealing his startlingly original writing style, this book explains how it took years-not weeks-to ultimately write the seemingly sporadic 1957 novel, ""On the Road.""
Book Synopsis Adventures Into Mexico by : Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Download or read book Adventures Into Mexico written by Nicholas Dagen Bloom and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond the tequila-soaked clich s of Mexican tourism, this multifaceted book explores the influence and experiences of Americans in Mexico since World War II. The authors trace Mexico's growing role as an important refuge for Americans seeking not only sun and fun but also an alternative cultural and social model. And on the other side of the border, Mexican citizens and politicians have responded in creative and unexpected ways to growing numbers of migrants from their northern neighbor. Delving into the rich and varied worlds of political exiles, students, art dealers, retiree/artist colonies, and tourist zones, this work illustrates why large numbers of Americans have been irresistibly drawn to Mexico for the past sixty years. Specialists in literature, anthropology, history, and geography bring their unique perspectives to the stories of both short- and long-term migrants. Together their essays illuminate the complex goals and impact of American tourism, offering a fascinating interpretation to all those interested in modern Mexican history, border studies, tourism, and retirement in Mexico. Contributions by: Diana Anhalt, Dina M. Berger, Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Michael Chibnik, Drewey Wayne Gunn, Janet Henshall Momsen, Rebecca M. Schreiber, Rebecca Torres, David Truly, and Richard W. Wilkie
Author :Noah Simon Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781727434408 Total Pages :24 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (344 download)
Book Synopsis Summary and Analysis by : Noah Simon
Download or read book Summary and Analysis written by Noah Simon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a summary/study guide of the book. On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel, published in 1957, is a roman à clef, with many key figures in the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise. The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was first published by Viking Press in 1957. When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat, ' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
Book Synopsis Jack Kerouac ́s "On the Road". Intertextuality and Allusion in the Novel by : Guido Maiwald
Download or read book Jack Kerouac ́s "On the Road". Intertextuality and Allusion in the Novel written by Guido Maiwald and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac is often characterised as a travelogue. To a certain degree, this might work since the author made some travels around the United States before working on the Novel. Even the routes of his trips resemble to some degree the routes within On the Road. In 1947 Kerouac travelled from New York to Illinois, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, California and back to New York. In 1950, he took another long trip, which led him from New York to Denver, Texas and Mexico. Nevertheless On the Road is more than a description of autobiographic experiences on the road. Other critics underline the autobiographic role of balancing accounts with his friendship to Neal Cassidy who serves in the alias of Dean within the novel. Others criticized the novel as being no more than a manifest for the Beat culture, a “puff piece” for a life as tramp, consuming drugs and departure from a “normal life”. This work will try to point out some of the meanings and allusions hidden in the novel. Chapter 1 will set On the Road in connection with earlier “hobo-literature” to elucidate Kerouac’s ideals of a life as a tramp. As a kind of travelogue On the Road is about movement and thus about space. Chapter 2 will show what space or the change of space means for the novel and how it constitutes the matter of time within the novel. Chapter 3 focusses the “dynamics of friendship” - the development of the protagonist’s friendship. The last chapter deals with the quest for experience, which is one of the most prominent intertextual ingredients in the novel. On the Road was frequently referred to as “novel of initiation” or description of a spiritual pilgrimage.
Book Synopsis How Kerouac's On the Road Created a Generation of Half-Believers by : Mark Sayers
Download or read book How Kerouac's On the Road Created a Generation of Half-Believers written by Mark Sayers and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content in this short e-book is excerpted from The Road Trip That Changed the World, by Mark Sayers. The book examines the influence of Jack Kerouac on Western Culture and the Church from a Christian perspective. We live in a culture of the road—restless for adventure, glorifying experience, seeing life as a journey. Dissatisfied with where we are, we are constantly on the move to redefine our sense of home. Why do we see the world like this? How did we come to believe that our best chance of finding home is to be constantly moving? Jack Kerouac was one of America’s original proponents of the culture of the road, documenting his famous road trip across America in his classic work, On the Road. The standards he set forth in that book have influenced Western culture and church so much that we still read his book, echo his philosophies, and make movies in the vein of his iconic road trip. (A movie adaptation of On the Road is set to release winter 2012.) In this twenty-minute read, Australian cultural commentator Mark Sayers examines how Kerouac’s influence has shaped Western traditions, our cultural identity, and the church. By analyzing our culture of the road and its influence on us, he leads us to understanding what it means to have a true sense of home.
Book Synopsis The View from On the Road by : Omar Swartz
Download or read book The View from On the Road written by Omar Swartz and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Omar Swartz argues that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's significance as a cultural icon can be best understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional rhetorical practices and principles. To Swartz, Kerouac is a rhetor who symbolically reconstructs his world and offers arguments and encouragements for others to follow. Swartz proposes that On the Road constitutes a "rhetorical vision," a reality-defining discourse suggesting alternative possibilities for growth and change. Swartz asserts that the reader of Kerouac's On theRoadbecomes capable of responding to the larger, confusing culture in a strategic manner. Kerouac's rhetorical vision of an alternative social and cultural reality contributes to the identity of localized cultures within the United States.
Book Synopsis Reflections Upon the 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road by : Ron Whitehead
Download or read book Reflections Upon the 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road written by Ron Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Road Trip and American Political Thought by : Susan McWilliams Barndt
Download or read book The American Road Trip and American Political Thought written by Susan McWilliams Barndt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s hard to imagine the American dream without American road trips. This book takes readers on a journey through American road trip stories, revealing that they involve more than mere escapism—that they are an important and long-neglected source of American political thought.
Book Synopsis The Role of Jack Kerouac’s Identity in the Development of his Poetics by : Stefano Maffina
Download or read book The Role of Jack Kerouac’s Identity in the Development of his Poetics written by Stefano Maffina and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work revolves round the analysis of Jack Kerouac's complex identity and his main artistic inspirations. Even though the writer was born in Lowell, MA, he was raised in a Franco-American family with strong bonds with the Quebec region. The resultant split identity led to deep existential doubts that Kerouac was never able to overcome. However, the awareness of his cultural dichotomy proved extremely important for his own work. Indeed, the Beat author was able to reach an original poetics which was inspired by both American and French writers. Despite Kerouac's innovative style and writing method, an analysis of the artists who influenced his work could help contextualize and better understand his literary and linguistic genius.
