I uppsatsen analyseras Jack Kerouacs roman På väg utifrån fem grundteman; Att vara på väg; om resandets funktioner, Avvikelse från samhället, Idolisering och inflytande, Genus och kvinnosyn och Etnicitet. Analysen följs sedan av ett förslag på hur man i klassrummet kan behandla dessa delar av Kerouacs roman. Utöver detta innehåller uppsatsen ett avsnitt där litteraturens roll och funktion i skolan behandlas  och ett avsnitt som behandlar vikten av en dynamisk litteraturundervisning.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att enligt nämnda frågeställning utvinna en systematisk klassificering av Londons karaktärer utifrån Nietzsches text. Detta innebär i en imperialistisk kontext, med utgångspunkt i den postkoloniala teori formulerad av Edward Said, en problematisering av dikotomin västerländsk och icke-västerländsk samt ett uppdagande av en etnisk-kulturell hierarki, där det västerländska, i form av den londonska övermänniskan, gestaltas som högst och urinvånaren, det icke-västerländska, som lägst. Den kulturella representationen ska i denna studie undersökas i valda litterära texter av Jack London utifrån en nietzscheansk matris. Det är alltså inte en historisk granskning av hur imperialismen och kolonialismen i Nordamerika inverkat på dess urinvånare, även om denna studie undersöker en problematik som kan inplaceras i den historiska kontexten.

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This study develops forestry growth and yield models for two economically important tree species in Manitoba, black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP] and jack pine [Pinus banksiana Lamb]. The growth and yield models developed include regression-based individual tree height growth and site index, tree diameter (basal area) growth, tree bole taper, and individual tree mortality models. These regression-based models were developed empirically, using stem analysis, growth and mortality data from 80 permanent sample plots located within the commercially important boreal forests of Manitoba. Model development involved the exploration, comparison and testing of numerous potential regression models and predictor variables. Statistical issues commonly encountered in forest growth and yield modeling, particularly data autocorrelation and variable multicollinearity, were addressed using nonlinear least squares (NLS), generalized nonlinear least squares (GNLS), and nonlinear mixed-effects model regression (NLMM) approaches. Height growth and site index of black spruce and jack pine was modelled using a three-parameter generalized logistic function. NLMM regression was used since the data were spatially autocorrelated. The inclusion of prior measures from individual trees produced more accurate predictions. In the tree diameter (basal area) growth models, tree size variables were significant predictors for black spruce and managed jack pine stands. Site index (a measure of site productivity) was positively correlated, and basal area of trees larger than the target tree (a relative measure of competition) negatively correlated, with diameter increment. Thiessen polygon area, a spatial measure of competition, was a significant predictor for natural jack pine and upland black spruce stands. Tree bole taper was modeled by NLMM approach using a five-parameter equation based on dimensional analysis, with breast height diameter, total height and relative height as predictor variables. The inclusion of a single prior measure from each tree improved model prediction. Black spruce and jack pine mortality was modeled using logistic regression. The black spruce models predicted high survivorship for larger, fast-growing trees in less crowded stands. In the jack pine model, highest survivorship was predicted for larger, less locally crowded trees.

The present study affirms that Jack Kerouac's individual narratives of his Duluoz Legend, as contained in thirteen of his key novels, serve as episodic chapters in which the archetypal hero voyages on a quest through beatific discoveries toward a final self-discovery, a beatific vision.The first two chapters of the present study examine the archetypal relationship between the Beat novel and. beatific vision, studying this vision under four of its root-aspects: American transcendentalism, Catholic apocalyptic writing, Dionysian fulfillment, and Buddhistic unconsciousness. Chapters three, four and five turn from the philosophical patterns of the Duluoz Legend to the more specific plot patterns of these thirteen novels, an archetypal quest pattern which is simultaneously a lament for a lost Eden, an initiation rite, and a monomyth, the single pattern of the journey quest which underlies all myth.The final seven chapters develop the beatific aesthetic as it patterns the Duluoz Legend through the key novels of Kerouac in specific terms of myth and archetype. Chapter six examines the first stage of development, the world child, as embodied in Visions of Gerard (1922-1926), in which the memory of the life of the dead child Gerard, saintly and unspotted and wholly innocent, touches his narrator-brother, Jack Duluoz, the protagonist of the Duluoz Legend, who is beginning a new spiritual life, a new quest. The second (adolescent) stage of initiation, is presented in chapter seven as embodied in Dr. Sax (1930-1936), in which Jack Duluoz moves from eight to fourteen years of age, living in a world of imagination and fears, mixing fantasy and reality, finally unmasking the shadow of himself. Chapter eight considers two novels which deal with the third stage of the archetypal quest, where the protagonist rejects worldly power (flesh, knowledge, action) and makes a crucial discovery of the unknown within the self: Maggie Cassidy, Springtime Mary (1938-1939) and Vanity of Duluoz (1939-1946). Chapter nine examines the Kerouac novels which cover the scape-goat figure of Cody-Dean (Neal) and the resultant auest: events covered horizontally in On the Road (1946-1950) and vertically in Visions of Cody (1944-1952). The realization--that the American dream represented by Dean (teal) can have no validity in the present-brings Duluoz to his fifth period, his descent into hell, the night journey of his soul. Chapter ten analyzes the two Kerouac novels which trace the progress of this night journey: The Subterraneans (1953) and Tristessa (1955-1956). Having returned from hell, shaken and alone, the questing hero is then ready to ascend the mountain to achieve a union with the cycle of nature, in which the narrator withdraws within himself to discover a divinity there and emerge a more self-confident teacher, a Shaman. Chapter eleven treats Kerouac's two novels which explore this union of the individual with the cycle of nature: The Dharma Bums (1955-1956) and Desolation Angels (1956-1957). It is from an anticlimatic mood which follows the descent from the mountain that the quester moves into his final phase, the ultimate discovery of the unknown. Chapter twelve of the present study examines the three Kerouac novels which deal with this theme: Big Sur (1960), Satori in Paris (1965) and Vanity of Duluoz (1968).Chapter thirteen examines the vision for which the protagonist searches cyclically in these thirteen novels: ultimately, ironically, emptiness, the Void at the core of existence, the empty eye of God in which all dualities are resolved into nothingness. The dual recognition and recording of life energy in the moment--the sustaining of the monomyth-is all that remains of man's efforts to form his own art of life.

This study develops forestry growth and yield models for two economically important tree species in Manitoba, black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP] and jack pine [Pinus banksiana Lamb]. The growth and yield models developed include regression-based individual tree height growth and site index, tree diameter (basal area) growth, tree bole taper, and individual tree mortality models. These regression-based models were developed empirically, using stem analysis, growth and mortality data from 80 permanent sample plots located within the commercially important boreal forests of Manitoba. Model development involved the exploration, comparison and testing of numerous potential regression models and predictor variables. Statistical issues commonly encountered in forest growth and yield modeling, particularly data autocorrelation and variable multicollinearity, were addressed using nonlinear least squares (NLS), generalized nonlinear least squares (GNLS), and nonlinear mixed-effects model regression (NLMM) approaches. Height growth and site index of black spruce and jack pine was modelled using a three-parameter generalized logistic function. NLMM regression was used since the data were spatially autocorrelated. The inclusion of prior measures from individual trees produced more accurate predictions. In the tree diameter (basal area) growth models, tree size variables were significant predictors for black spruce and managed jack pine stands. Site index (a measure of site productivity) was positively correlated, and basal area of trees larger than the target tree (a relative measure of competition) negatively correlated, with diameter increment. Thiessen polygon area, a spatial measure of competition, was a significant predictor for natural jack pine and upland black spruce stands. Tree bole taper was modeled by NLMM approach using a five-parameter equation based on dimensional analysis, with breast height diameter, total height and relative height as predictor variables. The inclusion of a single prior measure from each tree improved model prediction. Black spruce and jack pine mortality was modeled using logistic regression. The black spruce models predicted high survivorship for larger, fast-growing trees in less crowded stands. In the jack pine model, highest survivorship was predicted for larger, less locally crowded trees.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Bern, Phil. I Diss. - Auch im Buchh. bei Francke, Bern.