Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on A COMPARISON BETWEEN BURROUGHS AND KEROUAC. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 7 page paper compares and contrasts the writing of two beat authors, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. Naked Lunch and On the Road are exampled, quoted, and analyzed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Page Count:
7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_MBburkero.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
are explored with frankness while in Kerouac delves into the American Experience in recent times. Both share many of the same goals and characteristics, but at the same time retain
that which makes each authors writing compelling and uniquely fresh. The Naked Lunch illustrated decay from within in its unusual treatment of a technologically advanced world that was bent on
self-destruction. Because it was so frank in its suggestions and implications, many in the literary circles dismissed it as gibberish. The establishment also was quite dismissive of the work because
Burroughs discarded narrative prose as many had been using up until this time. Burroughs stream of consciousness style was disorienting and jarring to the staid literary circles. And, if they
didnt care for that, they certainly didnt care for the fact that his chapters were not in chronological order, there were abrupt transitions and generally threw out all rules of
writing. And, yet, he tells a haunting tale with a no-holds barred clarity which had the book banned in many places. What most disagreed with was his honest look
and examination of drug addition, sexual orientation (especially homosexuality) and death in a technological world which has lost its humanity. The insane way in which the book is put together
only reinforces the theme of madness. The book is one of dense layers. On the purely shallow context, this book is about a mans recovery from addition. The novel
reads like someone who is recovering and going through withdrawal. However, on a deeper level, one would have to state that Lees journey
is his determination of what one has to live for in a world where mankinds condition has become deplorable and spiritually void. Taken in this context, then, it can
...