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It is one thing to criticize Kerouac's verbosity, repetitiveness, and sentimentality; it is quite another to dismiss his work entirely because his characters lead unconventional...
- Jack Kerouac Criticism: The Joy of 'On the Road' - John ...
In On the Road, the circumspect caution of an age was...
- Jack Kerouac Criticism: The Joy of 'On the Road' - John ...
In On the Road, the circumspect caution of an age was entirely shattered. Sometimes, this occurred with all the pain of direct revelation that characterizes Kerouac's fiction;...
Between 1947 and 1950, while writing what would become The Town and the City (1950), Kerouac engaged in the road adventures that would form On the Road. [3] Kerouac carried small notebooks, in which much of the text was written as the eventful span of road trips unfurled.
- Jack Kerouac
- 1957
Sep 4, 2017 · The Beat author’s revered novel – which nearly failed to secure a publisher – turns 60 today. David Barnett looks at its enduring appeal and why it will always have a place in his heart ...
Dec 27, 2012 · That’s important for a couple of reasons: It signals the novel’s hunger for new experience, for a way out of the conformist pieties of post-World War II America, and also Kerouac’s desire to...
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Aug 16, 2024 · The pair’s rejection of domestic and economic conformity in favor of a search for free and inclusive communities and for heightened individual experiences were key constituents of the emerging Beat culture, of which Kerouac—along with literary figures such as Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs —was to soon to become a charismatic representa...
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Sep 5, 2017 · It was Kerouac’s ability to “create a rationale” for what seemed to many Americans to be a senseless streak of rebellion among the nation’s youth that allowed On the Road to strike a chord...
