The Beat Generation and its Oppositionto the American Dream and Middle Class Values

Bc. Stephen Musana

Bakalářská práce

Anotace:

The Beat Generation tried to resist the American Dream and middle class values by redifining the American dream, flaunting middle class values and pursuing kicks through music,literature especially poetry, jazz music and other artistic forms. jack kerouac and a nit group of friends were the founders of the Beat Movement and the lived their writings reflect how the movement tried to resist the American social conventions of the post World War II.

Abstract:

The Beat Generation tried to resist the American Dream and middle class values by redifining the American dream, flaunting middle class values and pursuing kicks through music,literature especially poetry, jazz music and other artistic forms. jack kerouac and a nit group of friends were the founders of the Beat Movement and the lived their writings reflect how the movement tried to resist the American social conventions of the post World War II.

Keywords

American Dream, Middle class values, Beat Generation, Beat literature, biography, resistance and redifining

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 9. 1. 2009

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 27. 1. 2009
• Vedoucí: doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.

Masarykova univerzita

Filozofická fakulta

Bakalářský studijní program / obor:
Filologie / Anglický jazyk a literatura