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A new critical perspective on Kerouac's work and his textual practices.

Fiction --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Metafiction --- Authorship. --- Technique. --- Kerouac, Jack, --- Kerouac, Jack --- Kerouac, John --- Kérouac, Jean Louis Lebris de --- Chia-lo-kʻo, Chieh-kʻo --- Keruak, Dz︠h︡ek --- Ḳeruʼaḳ, G'eḳ --- קרואק, ג׳ק,

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Kerouac Ascending: Memorabilia of the Decade of ON THE ROAD is a memoir written by Elbert Lenrow about his relationship with Jack Kerouac, whom he taught at the New School in NewYork when Jack was emerging as a writer and with Allen Ginsberg, both of whom Lenrow befriended and encouraged. Lenrow writes with sympathy and charm about both writers and their "beat" friends, revealing Kerouac's seriously academic side by sharing papers he wrote in his course and giving insight about both writers t...

Authors, American --- Beats (Persons) --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- Ginsberg, Allen, --- Kerouac, Jack, --- Lenrow, Elbert, --- Kerouac, Jack --- Kerouac, John --- Kérouac, Jean Louis Lebris de --- Chia-lo-kʻo, Chieh-kʻo --- Keruak, Dz︠h︡ek --- Ḳeruʼaḳ, G'eḳ --- קרואק, ג׳ק, --- Ginzberg, Alen, --- Gīnasabārga, Ayālena, --- Ginsberg, Irwin Allen, --- גינזברג, אלן --- Friends and associates.

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In this pioneering critical study of Jack Kerouac's book-length poem, Mexico City Blues-a poetic 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 t

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Mexico City blues --- Mexico in literature --- Beat generation in literature. --- Kerouac, Jack, --- Kerouac, Jack. --- Poetic works. --- Mexico --- In literature. --- Kerouac, Jack --- Poetic works --- Baraka, Imamu Amiri --- Parker, Charles Christopher --- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Poetic works. --- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Mexico City blues. --- Mexico -- In literature. --- Kerouac, John --- Kérouac, Jean Louis Lebris de --- Chia-lo-kʻo, Chieh-kʻo --- Keruak, Dz︠h︡ek --- Ḳeruʼaḳ, G'eḳ --- קרואק, ג׳ק,

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Foster provides a survey of the four major Beat writers: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso. These writers were closely allied from the beginning of their careers and shared a particular vision of America, one which in turn defined much of their most celebrated work. They wrote in opposition to the materialistic, conformist culture they saw developing in postwar America, seeking through their fiction and poetry a way out of that world. Literature, as Foster demonstrates, allowed both writer and reader to see things as they were while, at the same time, providing an entry into transcendent realities. The best-known Beat works, On the Road, "Howl," and Naked Lunch, responded directly to social and political conditions at mid-century while indicating ways to escape them. Although the Beats were widely seen as social revolutionaries by journalists, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso were always predominantly writers. As the United States moved away from the contained, conservative temperament of the postwar period, the Beats became celebrities, and, as such, were dependent for their reputations on newspapers, magazines, and television. Their fame assured that they would be read, yet they were perhaps better known for their values and their personalities than for their books. Confusing the writer with the subject of On the Road, Kerouac's early followers were surprised to find that he did not even like to drive. They failed to see that his real revolution had to do with language. Foster focuses on the problems of language and aesthetics that the Beats confronted and suggests to the reader the great range of influence their work has had on subsequent writers.

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"In the only critical examination of all of Jack Kerouac's published prose, James T. Jones turns to Freud to show how the great Beat writer used the Oedipus myth to shape not only his individual works but also the entire body of his writing." "Like Balzac, Jones explains, Kerouac conceived an overall plan for his total writing corpus, which he called the Duluoz Legend after Jack Duluoz, his fictional alter ego. While Kerouac's work attracts biographical treatment - the ninth full-length biography was published in 1998 - Jones takes a Freudian approach to focus on the form of the work. Noting that even casual readers recognize family relationships as the basis for Kerouac's autobiographical prose, Jones discusses these relationships in terms of Freud's notion of the Oedipus complex."--BOOK JACKET.

Psychoanalysis and literature --- Autobiographical fiction, American --- Oedipus complex in literature. --- Duluoz (Fictitious character) --- Myth in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Beat literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Kerouac, Jack, --- Oedipus --- Edip --- Edipas --- Edipi --- Edipo --- Edips --- Edipu --- Edipus --- Edyp --- Ødipus --- Oedip --- Œdipe --- Oidipus --- Oidipusz --- أوديب --- Эдип --- Эдып --- Едіп --- Едип --- Οἰδίπους --- Οιδιποδας --- 오이디푸스 --- オイディプース --- 俄狄浦斯 --- עדיפוס --- אדיפוס --- Kerouac, Jack --- Kerouac, John --- Kérouac, Jean Louis Lebris de --- Chia-lo-kʻo, Chieh-kʻo --- Keruak, Dz︠h︡ek --- Ḳeruʼaḳ, G'eḳ --- קרואק, ג׳ק, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Characters --- Duluoz. --- In literature. --- Oedipus complex in literature --- Myth in literature --- Self in literature --- Beats (Persons) --- Psychanalyse et littérature --- Roman autobiographique américain --- Oedipe (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Complexe d'Oedipe dans la littérature --- Duluoz (Personnage fictif) --- Mythe dans la littérature --- Moi dans la littérature --- Beat generation --- History and criticism --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Beat generation. --- Duluoz (Fictitious character). --- Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature.