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View from "On the Road" by Omar Swartz
The Rhetorical Vision of Jack Kerouac
Through careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Omar Swartz argues that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's significance as a cultural icon can be best understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional rhetorical practices and principles. To Swartz, Kerouac is a rhetor who symbolically reconstructs his world and offers arguments and encouragements for others to follow. Swartz proposes that On the Road constitutes a "rhetorical vision," a reality-defining discourse suggesting alternative possibilities for growth and change. Swartz asserts that the reader of Kerouac's On the Road becomes capable of responding to the larger, confusing culture in a strategic manner. Kerouac's rhetorical vision of an alternative social and cultural reality contributes to the identity of localized cultures within the United States. |
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| Author(s) : Omar Swartz | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0809323842 | ISBN-13 : 9780809323845 |
| RRP : £14.50 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 31/12/2000
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Page Length : 144mm
Page Size : 229mm