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Author | : Regina Weinreich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Regina Weinreich explores Kerouac's place in American literature by establishing the total design of his work. She contends that he thought of his works as "one vast book" (a "Divine Comedy of Buddha") he called the Legend of Duluoz. Weinreich finds that Kerouac's linguistic experimentation leads to a poetic unity rather than the linear unity commonly associated with legends. She discusses the nature of his "spontaneous bop prosody," relating it to the work of Thomas Wolfe and Henry Miller. In addition to explaining Kerouac's method, Weinreich seeks to define the unity of his works, from The Town and the City, On the Road, and Visions of Cody to Desolation Angels and Vanity of Duluoz, which she argues brings the legend full circle. Weinreich feels the autobiographical nature of Kerouac's oeuvre links him to other twentieth-century American writers, following a distinctly Whitmanesque tradition.
Author | : Regina Weinreich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781560253877 |
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"The nature of Kerouac's "spontaneous bop prosody" is discussed in relation to the work of Thomas Wolfe and Henry Miller. Kerouac compared his "loose style" to that of a jazz horn-player sounding one long note. Moving beyond Kerouac's method alone, Weinreich seeks further to define the unity of his works, from The Town and the City, On the Road, and Visions of Cody to Desolation Angels and Vanity of Duluoz, which she argues brings the legend full circle."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Hassan Melehy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501336061 |
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Given Jack Kerouac's enduring reputation for heaving words onto paper, it might surprise some readers to see his name coupled with the word �poetics.� But as a native speaker of French, he embarked on his famous �spontaneous prose� only after years of seeking techniques to overcome the restrictions he encountered in writing in a single language, English. The result was an elaborate poetics that cannot be fully understood without accounting for his bilingual thinking and practice. Of the more than twenty-five biographies of Kerouac, few have seriously examined his relationship to the French language and the reason for his bilingualism, the Qu�bec Diaspora. Although this background has long been recognized in French-language treatments, it is a new dimension in Anglophone studies of his writing. In a theoretically informed discussion, Hassan Melehy explores how Kerouac's poetics of exile involves meditations on moving between territories and languages. Far from being a na�ve pursuit, Kerouac's writing practice not only responded but contributed to some of the major aesthetic and philosophical currents of the twentieth century in which notions such as otherness and nomadism took shape. Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory offers a major reassessment of a writer who, despite a readership that extends over much of the globe, remains poorly appreciated at home.
Author | : Jack Kerouac |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2006-04-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0142002151 |
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In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.
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.
Author | : Tim Hunt |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0472052160 |
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A new critical perspective on Kerouac's work and his textual practices.
Author | : Stefano Maffina |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1471706850 |
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This work revolves round the analysis of Jack Kerouac's complex identity and his main artistic inspirations. Even though the writer was born in Lowell, MA, he was raised in a Franco-American family with strong bonds with the Quebec region. The resultant split identity led to deep existential doubts that Kerouac was never able to overcome. However, the awareness of his cultural dichotomy proved extremely important for his own work. Indeed, the Beat author was able to reach an original poetics which was inspired by both American and French writers. Despite Kerouac's innovative style and writing method, an analysis of the artists who influenced his work could help contextualize and better understand his literary and linguistic genius.
Author | : Timothy Hunt |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0472120328 |
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Tim Hunt’s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Proseexamines Kerouac’s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author’s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac’s development of “Spontaneous Prose” to differentiate the preliminary experiment of On the Road from the more radical experiment of Visions of Cody, and to demonstrate Kerouac’s transition from working within the textual paradigm of modern print to the textual paradigm of secondary orality. From these perspectives, Tim Hunt crafts a new critical approach to Beat poetics and textual theory, marking an important contribution to the current revival of Kerouac and Beat studies underway at universities in the U.S. and abroad, as reflected by a growing number of conferences, courses, and a renewal in scholarship.
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.
Author | : Jack Kerouac |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2000-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140296395 |
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Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic, On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two, ranging from stories and poems to plays and parts of novels, including an excerpt from his 1943 merchant marine novel, The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years, and reflect his primary literary influences. Readers will also find in these works the source of Kerouac's spontaneous prose style. Uncovering a fascinating missing link in Kerouac's development as a writer, Atop an Underwood is essential reading for Kerouac fans, scholars, and critics.