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On the Road
Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel was a mostly autobiographical travelogue of cross-country trips that Kerouac took during the late 1940s. On the Road's characters were thinly-disgui...
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On the Road - Jack Kerouac - 1957
Introduction
On the Road by Jack Kerouac is an autobiographical novel that has come to symbolize the American youth subculture of the 1950s. The book chronicles the c...
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
The son of French Canadian parents who had immigrated to the United States, Jack (Jean-Louis Lebris de) Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He grew up in ...
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Biography EssayJack Kerouac, regarded in modern American fiction as the authentic voice of the "beat genera- don," thought of himself as a storyteller in the innovative literary tradition of Proust an...
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Jean-Louis Lebris de (Jack) Kerouac (1922-1969), American writer, experimented with spontaneous autobiographical fiction chronicling his travels into the American West. He is known as the father of th...
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Jack Kerouac died, as he had spent much of his adult life, writing. The morning of October 20, 1969, he was sitting in front of his television at his home in St. Petersburg, Florida, jotting down note...
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Jack Kerouac, regarded in modern American fiction as the authentic voice of the "beat generation," thought of himself as a storyteller in the innovative literary tradition of Proust and Joyce, creatin...
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Jack Kerouac, once called "our most misunderstood and underestimated writer," is gradually emerging from that limbo, though much about him remains obscure. The obscurity results from a misreading of h...
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Critical Essay by John Tytell
More than fifteen years after its publication, On the Road still has a large and growing audience. For many, it was the book that most motivated dissatisfaction with the ...
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Critical Essay by Tim Hunt
In spite of its reputation, On the Road is best understood as a skillfully managed traditional novel. Both the manuscript history and the text itself make it clear that Kero...
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Critical Essay by Gary Lindberg
Sal Paradise, the narrator of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), sees the book's central character, Dean Moriarty, as a hero in a variety of American styl...
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Jack Kerouac, the author of On the Road, was born in Lowell Massachusetts, in 1922. He was educated in the Catholic school system and later received a scholarship to Columbia University for football....
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On the Road: Kerouac's Alternate American Dream.
Jack Kerouac was one of a group of young men who, immediately after the Second World War, protested against what they saw as the blandness, confo...
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The actions we take are a greater representation of who we are as a person than the actions that others take against us. Everyone's action or reaction to any event is different which is was makes peop...
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In Jack Kerouac's On The Road, Sal Paradise is a man who was fed up with his life and what was expected of him. He was no longer content to sit around and allow society to dictate to him whom he sh...
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