"The Unsettlers" : Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, and the Myth of the Frontier in the American counterculture.

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dc.contributor.authorAinsley, Martin Jamesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-31T22:14:33Z
dc.date.available2024-07-31T22:14:33Z
dc.date.copyright1998en_US
dc.date.issued1998
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of History
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the intersecting roles of the American Myth of the Frontier and of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in the counterculture of 1960s America to make two connected arguments. Firstly, it argues generally that the Frontier Myth accounts significant! y for the peculiar character and trajectory of the American counterculture. Secondly, it argues specifically that the experiments of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters from the early- to mid-1960s comprised a primary instance of the means by which the American counterculture creatively adapted the Myth of the Frontier to its purposes. Analyzing the Pranksters within the context of the Frontier Myth provides us with a convincing, if incomplete, explanation for why the American counterculture seemed to emerge, flourish and self-destruct so dramatically within such a short period of time.
dc.format.extent104 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/16900
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.title"The Unsettlers" : Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, and the Myth of the Frontier in the American counterculture.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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