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Ginsberg and Kerouac, 1996.
Compares themes, styles, characterizations, philosophies in novel & epic poem. "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac & "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg .
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"Alan Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were friends whose experiences figure in each other's works. They both made their mutual friend Neal Cassady central to their most famous works -- Ginsberg's poem Howl and Kerouac's novel On the Road. The similarities between the two writers' concerns, interests, and language are also numerous. Both of them seem to be mapping the same territory with maps highlighted by bursts of the poetry and poetic prose that the two have in common: the saxophones and bop, the drugs and drinking, the sex and the travel, the nights, the madness, and the endless conversations. Despite all these similarities, however, they produced two very different works. Ultimately Ginsberg's work is about reaching inside himself. Self-knowledge, no matter how disturbing, sad, or horrifying, is what he is after. Kerouac and his character Sal remain unknown.
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Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, 2002.
This essay looks at the life of beat writer Jack Kerouac, and his renowned work, "On the Road".
1,195 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, $ 40.95
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Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac
This paper is an analysis of On the Road, the most famous literary product of the Beat generation. The author looks at the life of the book's creator, Jack Kerouac, and his philosophies on life, and restless spirit as he wandered and searched for meaning in all Kerouac encountered.
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"Though it is not the only work of his art, On the Road, for better or worse, has become Kerouac?s most famous novel. This book has performed as a means to meet the desires for a number of other people who feel to be having a restless and curious soul. The book itself initiated a cultural revolution, hence diverting about millions of people on new ideological channels. At the same time it arched Kerouac to a fame that he was never expecting and for which his calm, sacred soul was not prepared to deal with."
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Jack Kerouac: An American Icon, 2006.
An analysis of the life, work and legacy of the American novelist Jack Kerouac.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the life and writing of Jack Kerouac, the 1950s American author whose novel "On the Road" is considered a classic. The paper traces Kerouac's childhood in Massachusetts, including watershed events such as the death of his older brother. Then the paper analyzes the influence of the Beat Generation and other social phenomena on Kerouac's writing. The paper concludes with Kerouac's tragic demise from alcohol.
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"The Beat Generation. The Fabulous Fifties. Elvis. Rock and Roll. The Communist Menace. And then there was author Jack Kerouac. He defined a restless, dynamic and evolving generation of angst-ridden adventurers, who were desperately searching for the true meaning of life in the embodiment of this complex muse. Kerouac exuded a James Dean-like persona - in the way he wrote about, and ultimately lived, his life. Agnes Machate writes of Kerouac and his fellow writers of the Beat Generation: "They did not seem to pay too much attention to what was socially practical; in this regard they were rebels. If being non-conformist met their need for freedom and let them express themselves the way the wanted, and allowed them to be what they wanted to be, they did not have to obey any rules. They wouldn't fit in a group, but instead, stand out, so they wouldn't conform just to avoid an unpleasant treatment from society." ("The Generation of Extremes" 1)."
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Allen Ginsberg's Poem 'Kaddish', 2006.
This paper explains the background and analyzes Allen Ginsberg's poem 'Kaddish', which is not only poignant but also very true.
2,445 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 74.95
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This paper explains that Allen Ginsberg's poem, 'Kaddish', was written as a tribute to his mother, who had gone through many severe psychotic episodes, after she had passed away. The author points out that Ginsberg, who missed the funeral of his mother, learned that the Kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer for the dead, had not been said because there had not been enough men present as required by Jewish law; subsequently, two years after his mother's death, Ginsberg performed the ceremony and started writing his 'Kaddish'. The paper explains that, in this poem, Ginsberg's style of writing is almost disjointed, yet not difficult to follow, as the poet goes through many different feelings as he remembers his mother in her illness.
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"Unfortunately, Naomi Ginsberg remained very unhappy and equally unstable throughout the teenage years of her son, and she often returned to Greystone, where she sometimes remained for more than a year at a time. Allen Ginsberg, his father Louis, and his brother Eugene managed to keep the house and the family together through all of the hard times that they faced, and they were very close to one another, which helped fight off some of the despair and the helplessness that they felt regarding their mother's condition. However, Allen had special feelings toward his mother, and he saw her condition and her insanity as being a spiritual problem instead of a mental condition."
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Ginsberg's Poetry, 2007.
An analysis of Allen Ginsberg's poems; "A Supermarket in California" and "Howl."
1,072 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The paper analyzes two poems by American poet Allen Ginsberg written in the mid-1950s: "A Supermarket in California" and "Howl" in terms of both their individual content and their broader implications within the poet's work. The paper discusses how Ginsberg describes a prosperous post-World War II era America, spoiled by mid-to-late-20th century artificiality, inhumanity and modernization and by the competitive ruthless and non-reflective attitudes that accompany it. The paper shows how Allen Ginsberg expresses disillusionment in the first poem semi-humorously and in the second more seriously and sometimes despairingly about the overall state of post-industrial America.
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"In Ginsberg's poem "A Supermarket in California" (1955) Ginsberg, one of America's greatest Beat Poets of the 1950's and 1960's, juxtaposes descriptions of one of his literary idols, the 19th century American poet Walt Whitman (a homosexual like Ginsberg himself), against descriptions of average contemporary people who might be found inside a California supermarket (e.g., husbands; wives; babies). Alongside these average American consumers, Ginsberg's speaker and Walt Whitman himself (resurrected, for this poem) shop in a supermarket in California. Ginsberg's poem offers a post-modern, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, wholly impressionistic view of an imagined time-traveling Walt Whitman within an antisepticised, artificially-packaged, and homogenized 1950's American grocery store."
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The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, 2006.
A look at the controversial poet, Allen Ginsberg.
4,849 words (approx. 19.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 123.95
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This paper takes a look at the life of Allen Ginsberg, one of America's most controversial poets of the mid to late 20th century. Ginsberg was made famous by his radical poem "Howl" and his views on American society, politics and the Vietnam War. This paper also takes a look at New Historicism, and Ginsberg's involvement.
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"Thus, most of the work of Allen Ginsberg can be seen as culturally significant, for it explores through verse and narrative the inner workings of the cities and how the people that worked and died in these cities during the late 1940's and 1950's experienced everyday life. In essence, Ginsberg's poetry and narrative pieces are filled with "cultural poetics," also known as New Historicism, "a theory that emphasizes the importance of history as a standard of cultural value or as a determinant of events" (Schumacher, 56).
Before commencing on the biography of Allen Ginsberg, it seems appropriate to make some brief comments on the status of America during the 1950's, the period which highly influenced Ginsberg and his writings. Following the close of World War II in 1945, America was plunged into a "Cold War" with the Soviet Union, a war based on threat instead of action. Culturally, America was in the throes of massive change, due to the victories over Nazi Germany and Japan and the economic boom that followed in the wake of World War II. For the most part, Americans were experiencing new and at times disturbing cultural trends linked to politics, economics and the rapid development of technology, especially regarding television. Also, as a result of World War II, Americans had a sense of belonging to the greater whole and began to see themselves as conformists, meaning that they never questioned authority and subscribed to "herd mentality."
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Jack Kerouac' "On the Road", 2005.
This paper is a review, written in the form of a letter to the author, Jack Kerouac about his 1957 book "On the Road".
1,535 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" captures the essence of the United States in a manner that has never been accomplished before because his disjointed and arbitrary travels mimic the complex and almost incomprehensible experience that is America, filled with the people and places, both famous and obscure. The author points out that Kerouac rolls through the countryside creating memories, connected directly his relationship with his friends; thus the theme, which pulls the novel together, is that the vast expanses of the United States are characterized by the people within them. The paper relates that the novel makes America real because, unlike other novels about this country "On the Road " does not appear to have any ideology aside from existence: "We are here. We are alive."
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"Another symbol of beauty and pure emotion is music. Music is like America: they both are meaningless if there is not a human being there to experience them. Jazz, however, not only reflects America, but it reflects a rebellious aspect of America. In your time it remained a subculture; looked down upon by the social elite, the conservative, and the racists. Sal and Dean are unconcerned with all of these connotations. Specifically what appeals to Sal is the raw emotion; the idea that a trumpet player can most accurately express his emotion by hitting random, unplanned, and almost arbitrary notes. Dean becomes completely lost in the music. He believes he can feel exactly what the musician is feeling and at exactly the same moment."
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Allen Ginsberg?s ?Howl?, 2006.
A review of Allen Ginsberg's controversial poem "Howl".
1,949 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines the poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg which led to a widely publicized court case dividing readers between a view of art and obscenity. This paper discusses how "Howl" is not obscene or socially deviant writings, but instead, a valuable social critique of Ginsberg's time. By teasing out the parts that are labeled obscene, it picks the most controversial topics and explores the meanings behind them, also showing how it is more of a social critique than plan obscenity for no reason.
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"The topic of homosexuality and blatant crudeness towards heterosexuality makes itself visible in the text, a topic that society at the time tried to shy away from and viewed as indecent. The most obvious is the image of one having anal intercourse and not feeling ashamed to enjoy it, "who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy" (128), writing in this way without holding back literally shoves the idea of homosexuality in the face of the reader, without hiding from it, and makes the reader interpret it in the poem. The character does not care where the sex comes from, jumping into passing limousines "seeking jazz or sex or soup" (127), he or she seems to not care where or how they receive this sex they are looking for, comparing it to something as little as soup or jazz."
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Kerouac and American Literature, 2001.
This essay examines America's identity crisis as portrayed in Kerouac's "On the Road".
1,310 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explores Jack Kerouac's famous book, "On the Road", about rootless kids looking for kicks. The writer discusses the characters in light of America's loss of identity from the time of the Puritans until the modern era, and how Kerouac used Black culture to fill the identity void.
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"Kerouac's" On the Road" has a complicated relationship to America and American literature. On the one hand, it breaks from the evolving literary tradition within America through its elevation of Afro-American culture, and its depiction of largely irresponsible individuals driven by their need for excess and stimulation. On the other hand, "On the Road" seems to embrace, even subsume, the themes and impulses of earlier literary traditions-traditions that paralleled and somehow responded to the changing cultural and political climates in which they found themselves."
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Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California", 2001.
An examination of the Allen Ginsberg's poem, "A Supermarket in California" and its themes.
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 4 sources, $ 48.95
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This paper analyzes the poem, "A Supermarket in California", written in 1955 by Allen Ginsberg. The author examines how the poem expresses the anxiety of this key period of change in Western history through Ginsberg's own unique form of socio-political criticism.
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"The decade of the 1950's was the beginning of a new era. Society was changing. The industrial revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the two World Wars, and the threat of the Cold War had all pushed America to the forefront of change. Television brought ideas to the masses like never before. Progress was the ideal. "
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Poet Allen Ginsberg, 2006.
This paper discusses the life and times of late 20th century "Beat Generation" poet, Allen Ginsberg.
4,760 words (approx. 19.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 122.95
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This paper explains that Allen Ginsberg, best-known for his radical poem "Howl" and for his outspoken views on American society, politics and the Vietnam War, was a very influential figure in the counterculture of the mid to late 1960s. The author points out that when it was first published, "Howl" reflected some of the most absurd and decadent traits of American culture, ignored by most people, such as the use of illegal drugs that was just beginning to spread in the urban cities. The paper relates that the contents of "Howl" disturbed many people, even those in San Francisco, a city known for its non-conformity and outlandish social life. The paper concludes that Allen Ginsberg gave impetus to great cultural changes in the way young people chose to live within a society that, for the most part, rejected and denied them.
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"Clearly, it was Lucien Carr who introduced Ginsberg to the cultural miasma of Greenwich Village in New York City, a place rampant with people from all walks of life. It was in this setting that Ginsberg's literary mind was set on fire and where he first experienced the thrill of being an intellectual steeped in an explosion of culturally-diverse phenomenon. Not long after meeting Carr, Ginsberg wrote to his brother and said, "I plan to go down to Greenwich Village with a friend of mine who claims to be an intellectual, and knows queer and interesting people. I plan to get drunk, if I can.""
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Analysis of Jack Kerouac's Works, 2005.
An analysis of Jack Kerouac as well as his characters in three of his works.
2,937 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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This paper shows that social discomfort and distrust are heavily reflected in Jack Kerouac's works. Ray Smith from "The Dharma Bums" and Sal Paradise from "On the Road" are confused by society and why it functions as it does, and are therefore isolated from it. Leo Percepied from "The Subterraneans", on the other hand, becomes isolated from society as a result of not understanding himself and merely tries to accept his life for what it is. The paper takes a look at the links between Kerouac's characters, also in comparison to his own life.
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"Eventually Ray comes to believe that the only way to achieve total happiness is to find "dharma," or truth. He comes to this conclusion with the help of his good friend Japhy Ryder. Ryder is an easygoing young man who is a strong follower of Buddhism. He introduces Ray to Buddhist thinking and gets him interested in pursuing dharma by telling him miraculous tales of the great Han Shan, an ancient Buddhist monk whom he grows to admire greatly. His admiration is for Han Shan's ability to "take off by himself and live purely and true to himself."3 For Han Shan the solution is to live a life of his own in the mountains of China, in retreat from society's conformity."
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Jack Kerouac's "On The Road", 2004.
This paper analyzes Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road".
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 10 sources, $ 79.95
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This paper explains that Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" is an expression of the beat generation of 1950s America. The author points out the way the novel functions as a document of the psychological and cultural experience of an individual. The paper states that the book also offers insight into the attitudes and behavior of a society.
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"To say that Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" is autobiographical is a little like saying that Rembrandt did self-portraits once in a while. In a way that relatively few fictional treatments of one's current experience of life have managed, "On the Road" functions ..."
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From Whitman to Ginsberg, 2002.
Examines how homophobia prompted the biased evaluation of works by poets, Walt Whitman and Alan Ginsberg.
9,550 words (approx. 38.2 pages), 39 sources, MLA, $ 195.95
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Both Walt Whitman and Alan Ginsberg have been denigrated for their sexual preferences and that homophobia has spilled over into the criticism concerning their literary works. This paper compares and contrasts the experiences of both authors in their respective eras. It discusses the problems critics faced when evaluating the poetry of two outspoken, brilliant men, and the charges of obscenity leveled against them time after time.
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"The trend toward acceptance of Whitman?s homosexuality in the critical evaluation of his work has produced a plethora of critical reviews focusing on homosexuality as a basis for the work. Just as previous critics attempted to ignore or minimize Whitman?s sexuality, the early reviews of later critics often ?read like catalogs of sex acts? (Reynolds 490). Current approaches appear to reflect the social consciousness with regard to homosexuality. With the advent of gay pride and queer studies, the critics have come to consider Whitman?s sexuality as part of the work. If the current trend continues, Whitman may eventually be viewed as ?a poet who was a homosexual, not a homosexual who wrote poems? (Street 12)."
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?Howl? by Allen Ginsberg, 2002.
An analysis of Allen Ginsberg's poem, "Howl", focusing on the theme of the madness of the American society.
668 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper discusses the individual and social conflict that is evident in the poem ?Howl? by Allen Ginsberg. In addition to the analysis of the poem in reference to its social relevance, the paper also includes a presentation of the poet?s feelings while the lines and over-all content of the poem is delivered.
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"The poem ?Howl,? by Allen Ginsberg is a poem that evokes emotion and social awareness of the ?illness? and ?madness? of the people and the American society. Ginsberg?s poem is divided into three parts, and each part of the poem elicits a different kind of emotion and focus; the three parts wherein the poem is divided also addresses and talks about a different kind of audience, while consistently extending the message of ?madness? (in the literal and social sense) and with the issue of social strife and chaos within and among the members of the American society. The scenario Ginsberg presents in his poem is a reflection of the social and political strife that the American society had experienced during the post- Vietnam War era."
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