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  1. On the road to lost fathers: Jack Kerouac in a Lacanian perspective
    Author: Sawczuk, Tomasz
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Berlin ; Bern ; Bruxelles ; New York ; Oxford ; Warszawa ; Wien

    The book is the first monograph which examines the correspondences between the oeuvre of Jack Kerouac and the thought of Jacques Lacan, the two apparently incompatible worlds which prove to be complementary when taking a closer look. The study... more

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    The book is the first monograph which examines the correspondences between the oeuvre of Jack Kerouac and the thought of Jacques Lacan, the two apparently incompatible worlds which prove to be complementary when taking a closer look. The study demonstrates a number of points. Firstly, with Jacques Lacan as a silent partner, it helps to better understand why psychoanalysis won Kerouac’s enmity in the mid-1950s. It also delves into Lacan’s reflections on spontaneous free-association to prove their convergence with Beats’ literary tactics. In its final part, by employing Lacanian theory, the book offers an extensive insight into Kerouac’s oeuvre to excavate the problematic status of the father figure, a crucial matter not yet given a rigorous critical attention

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783631773475
    Other identifier:
    9783631773475
    Series: New Americanists in Poland ; volume 10
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German; American literature; Basiuk; Beat Generation; Fathers; Galecki; Jack; Jacques Lacan; Kerouac; Lacanian; literary theory; Lost; Lukasz; Perspective; psychoanalysis; Road; Sawczuk; Tomasz
    Other subjects: Amerikanische Literatur; Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation; Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse; Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: 240 Seiten
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    The development of psychoanalysis in the United States – Fundamental Lacanian concepts, literary studies and American literature: Lacanian perspectives – Kerouac and psychoanalysis in America – Textual spontaneity and Lacanian theory – Father figures in the Duluoz Legend;