EN 436 - Kerouac & His Sources

Institution:

Arcadia University

Subject:

English

Description:

A study of central works of Jack Kerouac and several key literary sources he drew on. Includes On The Road, The Dharma Bums and the poetry collection Mexico City Blues. Influences include others in the Beat Movement like Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Diana di Prima, American predecessors like Ernest Hemingway, Jack London and Walt Whitman; the French Symbolist poets (in translation) Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Bauselaire; and finally the Romantic visionary William Blake

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.arcadia.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 572-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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