Understanding Jack Kerouac
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2000]
Format: Book
Description: 200 pages ; 19 cm.
Understanding Jack Kerouac introduces a new generation of readers to what Matt Theado calls Kerouac's unwieldy accretion of published work - fiction, poetry, nonfiction, selected letters, religious writing and true-story novels. Presenting this Beat Generation icon as a writer rather than as a social rebel or media celebrity, Theado asks why Kerouac's reputation has outlived disparaging beatnik associations. He takes a book-by-book approach to the sometimes confusing canon and develops a framework for understanding Kerouac's thematic concerns, writing techniques and artistic evolution.
Series: Understanding contemporary American literature.
Contents:
Chronology -- Biography and background -- Kerouac's technique -- The town and the city (1950) -- On the road (1957) -- Visions of Cody (1972) -- Doctor Sax: Faust part three (1959) -- Maggie Cassidy (1959) and The subterraneans (1958) -- Tristessa (1960), Visions of Gerard, (1963) and Buddhism -- Desolation angels (1965) and the Dharma bums (1958) -- Big sur (1962) -- Later work -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN:
1570032726
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Criticism Kerouac The | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-196) and index.