{"id":130,"date":"2015-10-21T23:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/?p=130"},"modified":"2015-10-27T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:35:08","slug":"road-bad-boy-1-kerouac-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysroadside\/road-bad-boy-1-kerouac-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Bad Boy 1: Kerouac, On the Road<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kerouac'sTypewriter\"For the next three class sessions we are discussing Kerouac’s iconic road trip novel, On the Road.<\/i><\/p>\n

Thurs 10\/22 – Part One
\nTues 10\/27 – Part Two
\nThurs 10\/29 – Parts Three & Four<\/del> – see revised schedule, above<\/p>\n

You’ll be analyzing the novel as a historical (not just a fictional \/ literary) text, and [possibly] choosing some aspect of it to write about for your History Lab #4<\/p>\n

Some helpful links:<\/p>\n

Music mentioned in the text: Lullaby of Birdland<\/a>, Slim Gaillard<\/a>, 1940s “bebop jazz” e.g. Dizzy Gillespie<\/a>, Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray “The Hunt<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

Gilbert Millstein’s book review of On the Road<\/em> in the New York Times, 5 Sept 1957<\/a><\/p>\n

Various NPR stories about the novel & its mystique<\/a><\/p>\n

Interactive maps<\/a> for the novel<\/p>\n

A “beat-obsessed” blog called The Daily Beat<\/a><\/p>\n

“In the Kerouac Archive<\/a>,” Atlantic<\/em>, Nov 1998<\/p>\n

Excerpts from JK’s journals<\/a>, edited by Douglas Brinkley, published in the New Yorker<\/em>, June 1998<\/p>\n

Local interest in Lowell<\/a> – Kerouac memorial walks and events in his own hometown<\/p>\n

(photo of Jack Kerouac’s Underwood typewriter courtesy of The Lone Cypress<\/a><\/i> blog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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