AMST 30163 - Jack Kerouac, the Beats, and Dylan

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

American Studies

Description:

This seminar will re-examine Kerouac and his prose in relation to Beat subculture and the larger context of post-World War II American society. Although the work of other Beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson, and Gary Snyder will be considered, the primary focus will be on Kerouac. Moreover, the seminar will question the cultural codification of Kerouac as "King of the Beats" and advance the notion that he was a prose artist on a spiritual quest. Or, as Ginsberg aptly put it, an "American lonely Prose Trumpeter of drunken Buddha Sacred Heart." Finally, in order to trace the development of the Beat influence, we'll examine Bob Dylan and his songs as the representation of sixties' social consciousness and expressive individualism.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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