(Jack Kerouac: Dharma). ... On the Road was a stylistic breakthrough for Kerouac who had developed a theory of writing he called, spontaneous prose. ... (Lit Kicks: Jack Kerouac). ... Kerouac's On the Road was a hit all over America, along with his trends and styles. ... Jack Kerouac's On the Road was the start of a new culture of children embracing. .Jack Kerouac was a man of many achievements. ...
To the Beats the only solution to a life of domestic stagnation was to pack up and let life lead you down one winding road after another. ... No other Beat poet understood that concept as well as Jack Kerouac. "Jack Kerouac single handedly created the beat generation. ... Kerouac was a Roman Catholic with a strong fascination with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. ... Kerouac was particularly interested in mastering the four noble truths. ...
I read the book "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac The Main characters in this book are Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise. The book takes place in 1947 and goes through 3 years to 1950. Sal is a writer and Dean just got out of jail when the story starts , neither of the men have much money or have rich f...
To the Beats the only solution to a life of domestic stagnation was to pack up and let life lead you down one winding road after another. ... No other Beat poet understood that concept as well as Jack Kerouac. "Jack Kerouac single handedly created the beat generation. ... Kerouac was a Roman Catholic with a strong fascination with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. ... Kerouac was particularly interested in mastering the four noble truths. ...
The Thing about the Beats One of the novels that has caused a great impact since it was written until now is the modern classic On the Road, the second novel of one of the most controversial writers of his time Jack Kerouac. ... Kerouac in On the Road tails his travels across America that took him seven years, he traveled by bus, hitchhiking and in his friends car. ... I was getting the bug myself" (Kerouac, 72). ... The review by Amazon explains it in a better way: "Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On the Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of ...
It describes how even though the original beats were few in number, many "movements" in literary history often happened when a cluster of a few writers, tied together by time more than space, uncovered a new path or road of writing style and content. ... Gary Snyder was one of the original Beat poets, and along with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Alan Watts helped to shape modern poetry and to fuel the cultural revolution of the 1960's. ... The other poets were Phillip Lamantia, Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Whalen, and Jack Kerouac who decided not to read. ...
The initial pioneers of the movement were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William S. ... The phrase "Beat Generation" was invented by Jack Kerouac in a 1948 conversation with John Clellon Holmes. ... Of these works, two would reach the greatest commercial success and epitomize the works of the beats: On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac's piece, a semi-autobiographical tale, depicting the travels and interactions of Kerouac and his friends. ... (Kerouac, On the Road) On the Road would define a generation but Ginsberg's Howl would chang...
