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Unit 2: On the Road
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Senior: 11 & 12: Unit 2: On the Road
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Unit 2: On the Road
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Useful Articles About 'On the Road'
Failed Faustians - Jack Kerouac and the discourse of delinquency
Fear and loathing in the novels of Kerouac
Fifty years later
Green Jack - Naivete, frontier and ectopia in On the Road
Project Muse 2: What's your road, man? Revisions of Kerouac
Project Muse 3: Free ways and straight roads
Project Muse 4: The tenement castle
Solitary Bartlebies: Kerouac's 'On the Road' and the ideology of the superhighway
The state of nature on Route 66: Kerouac's 'On the Road' and the social contract tradition
Through routes and roots: On the Road's portrayal of an outsider's journey in to the meaning of America
To be or not to bop: Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' and the culture of bebop and rhythm and blues
Traveller or tourist: Jack Kerouac and the communication of culture
From Melville to Postmodernism: The case for Kerouac's canonisation
Kerouac's The Subterraneans: A study of Kerouac's "Romantic primitivism"
Examining Jack Kerouac's role in the Beat Generation
Peasant dreams: Reading 'On the Road'
Spectres in the rear view: Haunting whiteness in Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'
Marylou and the portrayal of women in Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'
Jack Kerouac: The quest for Thoreau's West
Kerouac's 'noble savage': The tragic fate of the primitive man trapped within modernity
Study Guides
Course Hero: Infographic
Course Hero: Study Guide
eNotes: Study Guide
LitCharts: Study Guide
Book Rags: Study Pack
Useful Websites
Yale University: The American novel since 1945 - Lecture 8 - 'On the Road'
Yale University: The American novel since 1945 - Lecture 9: 'On the Road'
Slippery Rock University: SRU English professor reflects on 60th anniversary of 'On the Road'
Useful Ebooks
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism. Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
Jack Kerouac
A prophet of the Beat Generation, Kerouac defined Sixties counter-culture and the quest for self with his groundbreaking novel 'On The Road'.
Infographic: Course Hero
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