First Year Seminar: Jack Kerouac and Postwar Counterculture

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This First-Year Seminar will take an in depth look into the life and career of one of the most globally influential writers of the 20th Century, Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), as a means of exploring the manifold strands of countercultural forces that emerged in the wake of the Second World War in the United States. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.