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EN 466 Kerouac and His Sources

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.