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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


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    The View from On the Road: The Rhetorical Vision of Jack Kerouac » Read Now

    by Omar Swartz. 134 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Through careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Omar Swartz sets out to show that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's significance as a cultural icon can be best understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional rhetorical practices and principles.

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    A Map of Mexico City Blues: Jack Kerouac as Poet » Read Now

    by James T. Jones. 204 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Map of MEXICO CITY BLUES Jack Kerouac as Poet James T. Jones...is made to quote excerpts from Jack Kerouac, Mexico City Blues , published...A map of Mexico City blues:...
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    Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three » Read Now

    by Jack Kerouac. 250 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...SAX Faust Part Three BY JACK KEROUAC GROVE PRESS INC. NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 1959 BY JACK KEROUAC This is the original publication...rightfield later Paul Boldieu, p, Jack...
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    Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester » Read Now

    by Ben Giamo. 250 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Describes Kerouac's spiritual quest for the "ultimate meaning of existence & suffering, & the celebration of joy in the meantime".
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    Kerouac's 'The Subterraneans': A Study of "Romantic Primitivism, in MELUS » Read Now

    by Joe Panish. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Joe Panish In a review of Jack Kerouacs 1958 novel, The Subterraneans...and recently rereleased on The Jack Kerouac Collection, this recording is touted...Jones. New York:...
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    Boys Don't Cry? Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S. (includes "Road Work: Rereading Kerouac's Midcentury Melodrama of Beset Sonhood") » Read Now

    by Milette Shamir, Jennifer Travis. 286 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This...
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    San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature (includes "Jack Kerouac and the Beats in San Francisco") » Read Now

    by David Fine, Paul Skenazy. 243 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This important collection of essays on the writers who have made Los Angeles one of the great cities of twentieth-century literature has been strengthened by the inclusion of three new essays. John Fante, Walter Mosley, and Chester Himes join such writers as Aldous Huxley, F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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    Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now

    by Oliver Harris. 22 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...other key epistolary relationship, the one with Jack Kerouac. JACK KEROUAC: UNSPEAKABLE VISIONS Unlike Ginsbergs, Kerouacs...letters, published too late for consideration...
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    Kerouac, Artaud, and the Baroque Period of the Three Stooges, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now

    by David Sterritt. 40 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...S. Burroughss cut-up texts, and Jack Kerouacs outpourings of spontaneous prose...Avant-Garde. Cambridge: MIT P, 1992. Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. New York: Penguin...
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    The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation (includes "Circular Journey: Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend") » Read Now

    by Gregory Stephenson. 218 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...2 Circular Journey: Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend 17...reprint "Infinite Resignation: Jack Kerouac's Tristessa," a portion of Circular Journey: Jack Kerouac's Dulouz...
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    Who Says This? The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader (includes "The Novel as Document: The 'Docufiction' of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac") » Read Now

    by Welch D. Everman. 142 pgs.

    ...Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac 3 2 The Man in...Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that...deconstructing that form from...
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    The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962 (includes "Jack Kerouac and Thomas Merton, The Last Catholic Romantics") » Read Now

    by James Terence Fisher. 305 pgs.

    ...Passages from selected works of Jack Kerouac are reprinted by permission of...1956-1961 167 7 Jack Kerouac and Thomas Merton, the Last Catholic...early 1950s 231 Jack...
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    "I Dig Joyce": Jack Kerouac and Finnegans Wake, in Philological Quarterly » Read Now

    by Michael H. Begnal. 12 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ..."I Dig Joyce": Jack Kerouac and Finnegans Wake. by MICHAEL...The literary productions of Jack Kerouac have been persistently dogged by the...a national epic, then so too...
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    Contemporary American Novelists (includes "The Singular Worlds of Jack Kerouac") » Read Now

    by Harry T. Moore. 238 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Modern Critiques. The article on Jack Kerouac, by Professor Howard W. Webb...discussed in the present book, Jack Kerouac and John Rechy, and also presents...sharing a...
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    Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film (includes "The Beats and Visual Thinking") » Read Now

    by David Sterritt. 260 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    An interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with mainstream & experimental film & the interactions of all of these with American society & the culture of the 1950s.

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