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UNDERSTANDING JACK KEROUAC
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| By: |
Matt Theado, Matthew J. Bruccoli |
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| ISBN 10: |
1570038465 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781570038464 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 April, 2009 |
| Series: |
Understanding Contemporary American Literature |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
A companion to the novels of the king of the Beats. It introduces readers to what Matt Theado calls Kerouac's 'unwieldy accretion of published work' - fiction, poetry, nonfiction, selected letters, religious writing, and 'true-story novels'. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a concise companion to the novels of the king of the Beats. "Understanding Jack Kerouac" introduces 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 cultural icon of the Beat Generation primarily as a writer rather than as a social rebel or media celebrity, Theado elucidates the reasons Kerouac's reputation has outlived disparaging beatnik associations and why his writings continue to attract an expanding readership. Theado 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. Proposing that the real legend of Jack Kerouac is the saga of a writer at work, Theado suggests that as recognition of Kerouac's artistic achievement grows, the Duluoz Legend - Kerouac's series of barely fictionalized re-creations of his life - outgrows the genre of autobiography and becomes an intimate chronicle of a writer's stylistic maturation.Theado traces Kerouac's development as a crafter of language and contends that spontaneous prose, Kerouac's literary hallmark, may prove to be his chief claim to literary longevity. |
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University of South Carolina Press |
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