KEROUAC, JACK

(John Kerouac)kĕrˈəwăkˌ, 1922–69, American novelist, b. Lowell, Mass., studied at Columbia Univ. One of the leaders of the beat generation, he was the author of the novel On the Road (1957), widely considered the testament of the beat movement. Kerouac's writings reflect a frenetic, restless pursuit of new sensation and experience, and a disdain for the conventional measures of economic and social success. Among his other works are the novels The Subterraneans (1958), The Dharma Bums (1958), Big Sur (1962), and Desolation Angels (1965); a volume of poetry, Mexico City Blues (1959); and a volume describing his dreams, Book of Dreams (1961).

See A. Charters, ed., Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1940–1956 (1995) and Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957–1969 (1999); biographies by A. Charters (1973), B. Gifford and L. Lee (1978, repr. 1994), D. McNally (1980), G. Nicosia (1988), and B. Miles (1998); studies by T. Hunt (1981) and R. Weinreich (1986).

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The View from on the Road: The Rhetorical Vision of Jack Kerouac
Book by Omar Swartz; Southern Illinois University Press, 1999
Subjects: Beat generation, Conduct of life in literature, Fantasy in literature, Kerouac, Jack--1922-1969--Criticism and interpretation, Kerouac, Jack--1922-1969--On the road, Literature and anthropology--United States--History--20th century, Narration (Rhetoric), Visions in literature
...even with these qualifications, Kerouac did, at least for a time when he...9 . Through his art and life, Kerouac called into being a "community...just ahead. To this generation Jack Kerouac became a romantic hero, an archetypal...
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A Map of Mexico City Blues: Jack Kerouac as Poet
Book by James T. Jones; Southern Illinois University Press, 1992
Subjects: Beat generation in literature, Kerouac, Jack--1922-1969, Kerouac, Jack--1922-1969--Poetic works, Mexicans in literature
...working in the tradition, including Kerouac, avail themselves. Nevertheless, it is obvious that Kerouac falls far on the Romantic side of the...in a chapter of Naked Angels called "Jack Kerouac: Eulogist of Spontaneity," argues...
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Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester
Book by Ben Giamo; Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
Subjects: Autobiographical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Beat Generation In Literature, Kerouac, Jack--1922-1969--Criticism And Interpretation, Quests (Expeditions) In Literature, Spiritual Life In Literature
...Jacks Book. An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac . New York: St. Martins Press...Press, 1987. Hipkiss Robert A. Jack Kerouac. Prophet of the New Romanticism...in October: Last Reflections on Jack Kerouac . Hailey, Idaho: Limberlost Press...
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Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction
Book by James T. Jones; Southern Illinois University Press, 1999
Subjects: Autobiographical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Beat Generation, Duluoz (Fictitious Character), Kerouac, Jack--1922-1969--Characters--Duluoz, Kerouac, Jack--1922-1969--Criticism And Interpretation, Myth In Literature, Oedipus (Greek Mythology) In Literature, Oedipus Complex In Literature, Psychoanalysis And Literature--United States, Self In Literature
...Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac . New York: St. Martins, 1998. Cameron...197 vols. . A Bibliography of Works by Jack Kerouac . New York: Phoenix, 1975. . Jack Kerouac. American Writers: A Collection of Literary...
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Emerson's Contemporaries and Kerouac's Crowd: A Problem of Self-Location
Book by Bradley J. Stiles; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003
Subjects: American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Beat Generation, Consciousness In Literature, Emerson, Ralph Waldo--1803-1882--Contemporaries, Kerouac, Jack--1922-1969--Friends And Associates, Self In Literature, Soul In Literature, Split Self In Literature
...my eyes and it all goes away (Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard New York: Penguin Books, 1991, 25). 3. Jack Kerouac, On the Road (New York: Penguin...in A Map of Mexico City Blues: Jack Kerouac as Poet (Carbondale: Southern...
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"I Dig Joyce": Jack Kerouac and Finnegans Wake
Journal article by Michael H. Begnal; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 77, 1998
Subjects: Beat generation--Literature, Joyce, James--Influence, Kerouac, Jack--Attitudes
"I Dig Joyce": Jack Kerouac and Finnegans Wake. by MICHAEL H. BEGNAL The literary productions of Jack Kerouac have been persistently dogged by...national epic, then so too could Jack Kerouac. But the novel that seemed to...
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Grace, Nancy M. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination
Journal article by Jonathan P. Eburne; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 41, 2009
Subjects: Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, M. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
Grace, Nancy M. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination...Jonathan P. Eburne GRACE, NANCY M. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination...2006. xi + 301 pp. $45.00 Was Jack Kerouac the most overrated American writer...
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We're on a Road to Nowhere: Steinbeck, Kerouac, and the Legacy of the Great Depression
Journal article by Jason Spangler; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 40, 2008
Subjects: Great Depression, 1929-1934--Portrayals, Kerouac, Jack--Criticism and interpretation, Kerouac, Jack--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, On the Road (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Steinbeck, John--Criticism and interpretation, Steinbeck, John--Works, The Grapes of Wrath (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac witnessed firsthand the economic...intense conviction" (The Portable Jack Kerouac 559). In tracing the literary...Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954. New York: Viking...
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Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters
Journal article by Oliver Harris; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: Beat generation--Political aspects, Cold War--Influence, Dissenters--Literature, Ginsberg, Allen--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kerouac, Jack--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Letter writing--Political aspects, Narration (Rhetoric)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rosenberg, Ethel--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Rosenberg, Julius--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...coincidentally, such displacements are also crucial to Neal Cassadys other key epistolary relationship, the one with Jack Kerouac. JACK KEROUAC: UNSPEAKABLE VISIONS Unlike Ginsbergs, Kerouacs self-invasion of private life and its secret sentiments...
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Kerouac, Artaud, and the Baroque Period of the Three Stooges
Journal article by David Sterritt; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 31, 1998
Subjects: Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Beat generation--Personalities, Kerouac, Jack--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Stooges, at least the way Kerouac tells it. Jackie Duluoz...takes the older, wiser Jack Duluoz to decode those...Cambridge: MIT P, 1992. Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. New York...Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac: A Study of the Fiction...
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In the (Jack) Kerouac Archive
Magazine article by Douglas Brinkley; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 282, November 1998
Subjects: American fiction, American writers, Bohemianism, Kerouac, Jack
In the (Jack) Kerouac Archive. by Douglas Brinkley JACK KEROUAC is hardly an unfamiliar literary figure. In his lifetime...the subject of a number of biographies. The Portable Jack Kerouac and the first volume of Selected Letters, both edited...
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Jack Kerouac Comes Home to Lowell
Magazine article by Craig Frischkorn; American Theatre, Vol. 11, July 1994
Subjects: American drama--Production and direction, Kerouac, Jack--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
Jack Kerouac comes home to Lowell by Craig Frischkorn Beat poet Jack Kerouacs appeal is clearly on the...material from Big Sur--a later Kerouac novel which finds the 40-year-old Jack suffering from delirium tremens...
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Only People for Him: In Lionel Trilling's Distinction, Jack Kerouac Is More Than a Writer; He Has Become a "Figure" in Our Culture
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 278, August 1996
Subjects: Jack Kerouac, Writers
...Lionel Trillings Distinction, Jack Kerouac Is More Than a Writer; He Has...Lionel Trillings distinction, Jack Kerouac is more than a writer; he has...figure" in our culture THE PORTABLE JACK KEROUAC edited by Ann Charters. Viking...
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Ginsberg, Kerouac, the Beats and the Hippies
Magazine article by Fred Stern; World and I, Vol. 23, June 2008
Subjects: Ginsberg, Allen--Appreciation, Ginsberg, Allen--Works, Howl (Ginsberg, Allen) (Poem)--Appreciation, Kerouac, Jack--Appreciation, Kerouac, Jack--Works, Novelists--Appreciation, Novelists--Works, Poets--Appreciation, Poets--Works
...anyone wholl listen ..." <br/ Jack Kerouac: Inveterate Traveler The second...was they were looking for. As Jack Kerouac writes: "The Beat Generation...out there in the streets ..." Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was born in Lowell...
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"Call Me Sal, Jack": Visions of Ishmael in Kerouac's 'On the Road'
Magazine article by Mark Dunphy; Melville Society Extracts, July 2002
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Kerouac, Jack--Criticism and interpretation, Literary characters--Criticism and interpretation, Melville, Herman--Criticism and interpretation, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, On the Road (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Point of view (Literature)--Criticism and interpretation, Salvation--Portrayals, Spiritual healing--Portrayals
...Kerouac as "great prose Melville Jack" (Kerouac, 218). Both On the Road and...peripatetic vision quests. For Jack Kerouac, Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick...Dick, as well as the authors Jack Kerouac and Herman Melville themselves...
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Taking Note of the Enduring Jack Kerouac
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 23, 2007
Subjects: Kerouac, Jack
Taking Note of the Enduring Jack Kerouac. Byline: John Greenya, SPECIAL...Dennis McNallys "Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America...the New York Public Librarys Jack Kerouac Archive will celebrate the 50th...
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`Kerouac' Just Slightly off the Road
Newspaper article by Nelson Pressley; The Washington Times, July 28, 1998
Subjects: Kerouac, Jack
...On the Road" novelist Jack Kerouac. A jazz quartet swings...three wives, and we watch Jack have an affair with Cassadys wife. Kerouac drinks constantly, but...The Life and Times of Jack Kerouac in Word and Song" and...
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Showbiz: Books; JACK KEROUAC on the Road - the Original Scroll (Penguin, Pounds 25)
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), October 28, 2007
Showbiz: Books; JACK KEROUAC on the Road - the Original...in the 50s, written by Jack Kerouac. This is the 60th anniversary...Im not a huge fan of Kerouac, or his beatnik brothers...and influences. Fans of Jack will certainly beat the...
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Lost Novel from the Beat Generation; Plain Downbeat: Jack Kerouac in the Fifties
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 24, 2008
...Lost Novel from the Beat Generation; Plain Downbeat: Jack Kerouac in the Fifties. Byline: IAN THOMSON THE BEAT writers...Hipsters were beat from being on the road too long. Jack Kerouac, Burroughss friend, was often plain downbeat. And...
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Even Jack Kerouac Didn't Travel This Much
Newspaper article by Tom Knott; The Washington Times, March 11, 2000
Even Jack Kerouac didnt travel this much by Tom Knott EASTON, Pa. - You met the Sunglasses Man coming out of a field at midnight, making his way...
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encyclopedia articles on: Kerouac Jack  - 3 results

 
 
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Kerouac, Jack
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KEROUAC, JACK (John Kerouac)ker wak , 1922 69...25 books. See A. Charters, ed., Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1940 1956 (1995) and Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957 1969 (1999...
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Ginsberg, Allen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...generation , Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem attacking American values in the 1950s. The prose of Jack Kerouac , the insights of Zen Buddhism , and the free verse of Walt Whitman were some of the sources for Ginsbergs quest to...
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Beat Generation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...simple American speech and of bop and progressive jazz. Among those associated with the movement were the novelists Jack Kerouac and Chandler Brossard, numerous poets (e.g., Kenneth Rexroth , Allen Ginsberg , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , and Gregory...


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