HUMA 3697 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fellah, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady
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One the road: context and cultural overview. This lecture is brought to you by: the great escape, road trip, the beats, marginal figures (fellahin, route 66. Second assignment: on moodle-don"t bother with nonsense, make it as long as you feel is necessary but relevant info. Making use of the content we have learned in class in your own words. Cite it!-in the bibliography-show the complete path of your research, no matter what. If you look at it, even if you don"t use it, cite it! Road trips treat the highway as a sacred space, fundamentally road trips as way from getting away from it all. It is to escape the frustrations from driving in the city. Road trips are based on a combination of four genres. But road trips evolved from a previous genre of literature. The road trip comes from four different contextual patterns: the heroic quest, the pilgrimage, travel literature.
