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Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination

Name: Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination
Author: Grace, Nancy M.
ISBN: 9780230623620

by Grace, Nancy M.

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Overview

Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination explores Kerouac’s fiction, poetry, religious writing, private journals, and correspondence to reveal his aesthetic vision for American belle-lettres. The vision encompasses his fictional rewriting of his personal history, his life-long quest for spiritual enlightenment—both Christian and Buddhist—and his resolute belief in the blending of popular and academic cultural artifacts. The book features chapters on Some of the Dharma, Doctor Sax, On the Road, Desolation Angels, and Mexico City Blues and includes a discussion of Kerouac's influence on later writers, including Hunter Thompson and Bob Dylan.

Synopsis

An exploration of Kerouac's fiction, poetry, religious writing, journals, and correspondence. It encompasses his fictional rewriting of his personal life, his life-long quest for spiritual enlightenment, and his resolute belief in the blending of popular and academic cultural artifacts to create voices and forms to speak of and to a new age.

About the Author, Grace, Nancy M.

Nancy M. Grace is Professor of English at The College of Wooster. She is the co-author of Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Beat Women Writers, the co-editor of Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation, and author of The Feminized Male Character in Twentieth-Century Fiction. She is one of the founding members of the Beat Studies Association.