Female characters in Jack Kerouac's Fiction

dc.contributor.authorLyke, Patrice Phelan
dc.contributor.committeeChairThompson, Joyce
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBishop, Dean
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBridges, Phyllis
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-05T17:00:08Z
dc.date.available2018-02-05T17:00:08Z
dc.date.issued12/30/1991
dc.description.abstractJack Kerouac, accepted speaker for the Beat Generation in American literature, used women as vehicles in his attempt to define himself in both his life and his fiction. His three female-centered novels, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa show the male protagonists following a pattern of departure from home, experience in a foreign world, and return to home. Maggie Cassidy is Jacky Dulouoz's sexual initiation although the relationship is unfulfilled. With Mardou Fox of The Subterraneans Leo Percepied has a sexually-fulfilled relationship, but in Tristessa Jack Duluoz attempts a return to chastity. Additionally, Kerouac's treatment of women as vehicles for his and his characters' own convenience appears to be typical of the Beat Generation and its permeating attitude toward women.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11274/9088
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectAmerican literature
dc.subjectJack Kerouac
dc.subjectBeat generation
dc.subjectLanguage,literature, and linguisticsen_US
dc.titleFemale characters in Jack Kerouac's Fictionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Arts and Sciences
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorTexas Woman's University
thesis.degree.levelMaster
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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