Jack Kerouac's Philosophy of Resistance: Configurations and Potentialities of Authenticity in The Duluoz Legend – Talal Hawshar, Ph.D.
Talal Hawshar, Ph.D.
Doctoral thesis
Jack Kerouac's Philosophy of Resistance: Configurations and Potentialities of Authenticity in The Duluoz Legend
Jack Kerouac's Philosophy of Resistance: Configurations and Potentialities of Authenticity in The Duluoz Legend
Abstract:
Vypravěč Jacka Kerouaca v Duluozova Legenda je symbolem dezorientované, odcizené a úzkostné bytosti, která prožívá ztrátu autenticity během společensko-politické liminální fáze konce 40. a 50. let. Tato studie pojednává o ztrátě autenticity v Legenda na třech úrovních analýzy, z nichž každá odpovídá specifickému ohrožení autenticity a specifickým strategiím odporu, které vypravěč uplatňuje, aby mu …moreAbstract:
Jack Kerouac’s narrator in The Duluoz Legend is emblematic of the disoriented, alienated, and anxious being experiencing the loss of authenticity during the late 1940s and 1950s socio-political liminal phase. This study discusses the loss of authenticity in the Legend on three levels of analysis, each of which corresponds to a specific threat to authenticity and specific resistance strategies that …moreKeywords
Jack Kerouac authenticity hyperreality entropy individualism intersubjectivity spontaneous prose jazz improvisation beatnik Buddhism Otherness alternative American identity hyper-stimuli skepticism noumena esoteric knowledge nihilism dialogism postclassical narratology autenticita hyperrealita entropie individualismus intersubjektivita spontánní próza jazzová improvizace Buddhismus Jinakost alternativní americká identita skepticismus esoterické znalosti nihilismus dialogismus postklasická naratologie
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 20. 9. 2022
Identifier:
https://is.muni.cz/th/jivx0/
Thesis defence
- Date of defence: 16. 12. 2022
- Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D., prof. John S. Bak
- Reader: prof. PhDr. Josef Jařab, CSc., prof. PhDr. Michal Peprník, Dr., prof. Sophie Vallas
Citation record
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HAWSHAR, Talal. \textit{Jack Kerouac's Philosophy of Resistance: Configurations and Potentialities of Authenticity in The Duluoz Legend}. Online. Doctoral theses, Dissertations. Brno: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts. 2022. Available from: https://theses.cz/id/o21lt3/.
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Literatures in English / Literatures in English