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A Map of Mexico City Blues

A Map of Mexico City Blues
Author: James T Jones
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2010-08-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0809385988

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In this pioneering critical study of Jack Kerouac’s book-length poem, Mexico City Blues—apoetic parallel to the writer’s fictional saga, the Duluoz Legend—James T. Jones uses a rich and flexible neoformalist approach to argue his case for the importance of Kerouac’s rarely studied poem. After a brief summary of Kerouac’s poetic career, Jones embarks on a thorough reading of Mexico City Blues from several different perspectives: he first focuses on Kerouac’s use of autobiography in the poem and then discusses how Kerouac’s various trips to Mexico, his conversion to Buddhism, his theory of spontaneous poetics, and his attraction to blues and jazz influenced the theme, structure, and sound of Mexico City Blues. Jones’s multidimensional explication suggests the formal and thematic complexity of Kerouac’s long poem and demonstrates the major contribution Mexico City Blues makes to post–World War II American poetry and poetics.


The Culture of Spontaneity

The Culture of Spontaneity
Author: Daniel Belgrad
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780226041902

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In the first comprehensive history of the postwar avant-garde, "Belgrad contributes valuable insight and original scholarship to the study of 'projective' and 'spontaneous' aesthetics among cutting edge art movements of the American midcentury" (Tom Clark, author of "Jack Kerouac: A Biography"). 8 color plates. 28 halftones. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.


Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend

Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend
Author: James T. Jones
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809322633

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Noting that even casual readers recognize family relationships as the basis for Kerouac's autobiographical prose, Jones discusses these relationships in terms of Freud's notion of the Oedipus complex."--BOOK JACKET.


The Beats in Mexico

The Beats in Mexico
Author: David Stephen Calonne
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2022-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1978828721

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The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its landscape, history, and mystical practices in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti, as well as lesser-known female Beat writers like Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger.


American Poetry after Modernism

American Poetry after Modernism
Author: Albert Gelpi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2015-03-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316239799

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Albert Gelpi's American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period, from Robert Lowell to Adrienne Rich. Gelpi argues that a distinctly American poetic tradition was solidified in the later half of the twentieth century, thus severing it from British conventions. In Gelpi's view, what distinguishes the American poetic tradition from the British is that at the heart of the American endeavor is a primary questioning of function and medium. The chief paradox in American poetry is the lack of a tradition that requires answering and redefining - redefining what it means to be a poet and, likewise, how the words of a poem create meaning, offer insight into reality, and answer the ultimate questions of living. Through chapters devoted to specific poets, Gelpi explores this paradox by providing an original and insightful reading of late-twentieth-century American poetry.


Mexico City Blues

Mexico City Blues
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1959
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

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Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the "beat generation." His eighteen internationally acclaimed books -- including "On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans," and "Lonesome Traveler" -- were important signpost in a new American literature. Here, in "Mexico City Blues," his only collection of poetry, his voice is as distinctive as in his prose; it roams widely across continents and cultures in a restless search for meaning and expression, giving the verse the unique qualities found in America's most distinctive contribution to music.


Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

Encyclopedia of Beat Literature
Author: Kurt Hemmer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2010-05-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1438109083

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Discusses the literary works and great authors of the Beat Generation.


Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 867
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131776322X

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The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.


Mexico City Blues

Mexico City Blues
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0802195687

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One of the renowned Beat writer’s most formally inventive books, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac’s essential work of lyric verse, now reissued following his centenary celebration Written between 1954 and 1957, and published originally by Grove Press in 1959, Mexico City Blues is Kerouac’s most important verse work. It incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition and his interest in Buddhism. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are lyrically combined in the loose format inspired by jazz and the blues. Written while Kerouac was living in Mexico City, and with references to William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and Bill Garver, this exciting book in Kerouac’s oeuvre is an original and moving epic of sound, rhythm, and religion.


Continental Divides

Continental Divides
Author: Rachel Adams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2009-12
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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Rachel Adams explores the patterns of contact, exchange conflict and disavowal among the cultures that span the borders of Canada, Mexico and the United States.