Jack Kerouac is most commonly remembered for publishing his seminal account of the ‘Beat’ Generation in On the Road. However, while exposing the world to a downtrodden, nuclear holocaust fearing generation, Kerouac was changing the world of modern prose. His steady ‘stream of consciousness’ prose, referred to by fellow Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg, as ‘Jazz ...
Jack Kerouac is most commonly remembered for publishing his seminal account of the ‘Beat’ Generation in On the Road. However, while exposing the world to a downtrodden, nuclear holocaust fearing generation, Kerouac was changing the world of modern prose. His steady ‘stream of consciousness’ prose, referred to by fellow Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg, as ‘Jazz ...
One of the central thematic elements of As I Lay Dying is the distinction between what is a fact and what is an interpretation of a fact. Clearly, any objective fact can result in a multitude of subjective interpretations because the characters all have singular points of view. Their perspectives of any empirical truth is ...
Stream of consciousness is an unedited, unstructured and uninterrupted form of writing. It originated with the novel, Lauriers sont coupés, by Édouard Dujardin. The technique was then adopted by writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, and given its ultimate name. In this literary technique, often described as an “internal monologue,” a ...