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

Swartz, Omar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0809323842 ISBN 13 : 9780809323845

Editeur : Southern Illinois University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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 theRoadbecomes 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Southern Illinois University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809323842
• ISBN 13: 9780809323845
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible