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2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EN 366 Kerouac and His Sources

This 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 such as Allen Ginsberg, Cary Snyder, Diana di Prima; American predecessors such as Ernest Hemingway, Jack London and Walt Whitman; the French Symbolist poets (in translation) Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire; and finally the Romantic visionary William Blake.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.