Purdue University College of Liberal Arts
Information for
Week 4
February 28, 2008
Stewart Center 302 & 306
Margie Berns, Professor of English and faculty advisor for the Student English Association (SEA), has graciously agreed to talk on the winning selection chosen from among the four books chosen by the Purdue SEA, Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957, re-released in 2007 to mark its 50th anniversary).
Publisher's synopsis: The epitome of the Beat Generation, On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.