This program is over. Hope you didn't miss it! Browse other programs we offer On the Road High School Classics Revisited Evening Lecture/Seminar Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET Code: 1J0402 Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Select your Registration $20 Member $25 Non-Member Resize text Jack Kerouac’s On the Road from 1957 has become almost synonymous with the postwar Beat and counterculture movements that rejected the staid domesticity of the 1950s in search of freedom and alternative ways of life. Joseph Luzzi, professor of literature at Bard College, discusses how characters based on the writer William S. Burroughs, the poet Allen Ginsberg, and Kerouac himself embraced new cultural forms like jazz and experimental literature in search of meaning and artistic freedom. He also explores how “the road” itself becomes a symbol of the quest for new ways of living, thinking, and feeling. Other High School Classics Revisited Programs October 17: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass November 14: Ethan Frome November 21: Catch-22 December 9: Beloved December 17: Othello General Information View Common FAQs and Policies about our Online Programs on Zoom.
