The View from on the Road: The Rhetorical Vision of Jack Kerouac - Hardcover

Swartz, Omar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809322560 ISBN 13: 9780809322565

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999

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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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Omar Swartz is the author of Conducting Socially Responsible Research: Critical Theory, Neo-Pragmatism, and Rhetorical Inquiry and The Rise of Rhetoric and Its Intersections with Modern Critical Thought.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809322560
• ISBN 13: 9780809322565
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 130
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