Kerouac's crooked road : the development of a fiction / Tim Hunt ; with a foreword by Ann Charters and a new preface.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Tim, 1949-

Contributor:

Charters, Ann, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiographical fiction, American--History and criticism.

Autobiographical fiction, American.

Beats (Persons) in literature.

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road.

Kerouac, Jack.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

SIU Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now a classic, Kerouac's Crooked Road was one of the first critical works on the legendary Beat writer to analyze his work as serious literary art, placing it in the broader American literary tradition with canonical writers like Herman Melville and Mark Twain. Author Tim Hunt explores Kerouac's creative process and puts his work in conversation with classic American literature and with critical theory. This edition includes a new preface by the author, which takes a discerning look at the implications of the 2007 publication of the original typewrit

Contents:

An American education

From fact to vision: the road book

The redeeming eye.

Notes:

Originally published: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1981. With new preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-69690-7

9786613673862

0-8093-8569-4

OCLC:

856870277