<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.

With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became a cultural phenomenon. Crowned the "King" of the Beat Generation, Kerouac embodied the restlessness of Cold War-era America. What no one realized at the time, however, was that the movement that he supposedly led went against...

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Main Author: King, Jeffrey Warren
Format: Others
Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2008
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Online Access:https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1921
https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3273&amp;context=etd