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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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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 Poetry of Milan Koch in the Context of Beat Generation and Underground Literature
Mikšovská, Markéta ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Špirit, Michael (referee)
Key words (in English) Poetry, Underground, Beat generation, Counterculture, Analysis, Interpretation Abstract (in English) This bachelor thesis is dealing with the relationship between the literature of Czech beat generation and the underground of 60's and 70's of the 20th century. The main topic is an analysis of two collections of poems by Milan Koch: Červená KarKULKA and Hóra Láv, which are interpreted mainly in comparison to the poems of the collection Blues pro bláznivou holku by Václav Hrabě and to Howl, a poem by Allen Ginsberg. The interpretation focuses on concordances and differences in poetics of those - but also others - writers, on motivic analysis, on the bound with the context of then time and also discusses the influence of the american beat generation and their texts mediated by the translations of Jan Zábrana in the 60's (from the part in Světová literatura magazine in 1959 to later works in context of the 60's). This work is also about the influence of Allen Ginsberg's visit in Prague on the early underground and finally, present text tries to widen the knowledge about the life of the poet Milan Koch, too.
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