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Searching for Freedom in Jack London´s Novel The Road and Jack Kerouac´s Novel On the Road
ROSSMANN, Michal
The diploma thesis deals with a comparative analysis of two famous works of American literature of the 20th century: The Road (1907) by Jack London and On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac. The starting point of the thesis is a description of the personalities of both authors, who experience similar feelings in different periods of time. The thesis focuses on the way how London influenced Kerouac. The theoretical part deals with the meaning of the journey in the epic tradition (Bakhtin). The practical part focuses on comparing particular themes and motifs of the discussed works, while dealing with different aspects of the journey (adventure, escape, meeting, searching for identity and for the meaning of life). The thesis also deals with the experience of vagrancy as a way of life. Interpersonal relationships are analysed in an individual chapter. This chapter draws on the work Way to Wisdom by Karl Jaspers. The conclusion provides a summary of the motifs which can show how London influences Kerouac and how Kerouac develops and transforms the theme of the journey.
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The Influence of Jack Kerouac on Jacques Poulin : Identity Search in On the road and Volkswagen blues
Töröková, Sára ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
Late 1950s, American writer Jack Kerouac publishes his novel On the road which completely change the perception of literature: 120-foot-long scroll of teletype paper, written in three weeks and using the technique of stream of conciousness, the novel narrate a story about Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty who are travelling around theUSA, inspired by Kerouac's own experience. The book has a roaring success and play an important role in forming a groupe of writers known as "beatniks". Almost 30 years later, Jacques Poulin publishes his sixth novel Volkswagen blues, story about a Canadian-francophone writer and a young Indian woman crossing the northamerican continent in order to find a lost brother. The objective of this thesis is to shed light on the influence of Kerouac's autobiographical narration on Poulin's work and analyse deeply the role of this American idol in the Canadian-francophone literature. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Understanding Space and Landscape in Jack Kerouac's Novels
HANISCHOVÁ, Sandra
In the introduction of this thesis I will introduce the main authors of the beat generation and their thought reference. The thesis then focuses on the understanding of space and the landscape in Jack Kerouac's novels (On the Road, Big Sur) in connection with the theme of the creation of the Beat Generation (search for the meaning of human existence, the motif of the road, spiritualism and the relation to religion). One of the chapters of this thesis compares the biographical facts of the representatives of the beat generation (Kerouac, Ferlinghetti) and the autobiographical features of Jack Kerouac's work, especially in the novel Big Sur. The conclusion of the thesis summarizes Kerouac's image of literary California and its space perception of America as an unit.
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The Influence of Jack Kerouac on Jacques Poulin : Identity Search in On the road and Volkswagen blues
Töröková, Sára ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Šuman, Záviš (referee)
Late 1950s, American writer Jack Kerouac publishes his novel On the road which completely change the perception of literature: 120-foot-long scroll of teletype paper, written in three weeks and using the technique of stream of conciousness, the novel narrate a story about Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty who are travelling around theUSA, inspired by Kerouac's own experience. The book has a roaring success and play an important role in forming a groupe of writers known as "beatniks". Almost 30 years later, Jacques Poulin publishes his sixth novel Volkswagen blues, story about a Canadian-francophone writer and a young Indian woman crossing the northamerican continent in order to find a lost brother. The objective of this thesis is to shed light on the influence of Kerouac's autobiographical narration on Poulin's work and analyse deeply the role of this American idol in the Canadian-francophone literature. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Media reception of Jack Kerouac's writings in Czech periodicals
Šafářová, Andrea ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis Media reception of Jack Kerouac's writings in Czech periodicals aims to chart the Czech media's interest in the work of Jack Kerouac and analyze the critical acclaim of his work. There were chosen especially the reviews and the epilogues for analysis. The goal of this bachelor thesis is reached by the qualitative analysis using the semiotic analysis at the same time. The chapter dealing with life and period historical and literary context precedes the own comparison of the period experts' response - an acquaintance with the author's personality helps to understand the connections of the media reception of his work. Five books by Jack Kerouac were chosen for the analysis in order to - the individual chosen works were written in all decades in which the writer has written actively; the change of the critics' stances to his books from his early career to his creative block is apparent in the text. This bachelor thesis is based mainly on the literary critics' reviews, it draws information from the critical biography Memory Babe written by Gerald Nicosia as well as from the interview with forty-five-year-old Jack Kerouac by the poet Ted Berrigan, published as The Interview with Jack Kerouac for Paris Review.
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The New America in Beat Literature:Spontaneous, Far Out, and All That Jazz
Novická, Tereza ; Armand, Louis (advisor) ; Vichnar, David (referee)
1 Thesis Abstract This thesis establishes the Beat Generation as part of the American literary canon despite its rejection of the literary establishment and academic criticism of its day. The portrayal of the American postwar zeitgeist in Beat literature is examined through the innovative literary techniques proposed by Jack Kerouac based on jazz characteristics. The revitalization of poetic and narrative form are identified in Allen Ginsberg's earliest published poetry, notably "Howl; for Carl Solomon" (Howl and Other Poems, 1956), Kerouac's novels On the Road and Visions of Cody and his long poem Mexico City Blues, respectively. The emergence and peak of the initially marginal Beat literary movement that gave rise to the affiliated beatnik subculture illustrates the tradition of avant-garde art becoming incorporated into establishment culture. The first chapter outlines the political and cultural hegemony of the conservative fifties in America with focus on cultural and historical aspects relevant and parallel to the surfacing and development of the Beat/beatnik counterculture, i.e. Cold War policies, McCarthyism, poetic movements, the emergence of bebop and its innovations. The second chapter provides an in- depth analysis of Beat writing in reference to jazz as subject-matter and as influence on both...
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