Sökning: "Jack kerouac"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 uppsatser innehållade orden Jack kerouac.
1. En samling verk : En intertextuell kartläggning av Lydia Sandgrens debutroman
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : In this essay, I examine the intertextuality of Lydia Sandgren's debut novel Collected Works (2020). Throughout the novel, references to other literary works is constantly made, such as books by Ernest Hemingway, Ulf Lundell, Jack Kerouac, Klas Östergren, Simone de Beauvoir and Sigmund Freud. LÄS MER
2. Jack Kerouac’s Poetics : Repetition, Language, and Narration in Letters from 1947 to 1956
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
3. Resistance Through Space : A Comparative Study of Narrative and Space in Naked Lunch and On the Road
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
4. On the Road to the Market : Kerouac, Revisions, and Market Forces
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
5. "A Nakedness of Mind": Gender, Individualism and Collectivism in Jack Kerouac's On the Road
Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
