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Understanding Jack Kerouac (Understanding Contemporary American Literature),New
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A concise companion to the novels of the king of the BeatsUnderstanding Jack Kerouac introduces readers to what Matt Theado calls Kerouac's 'unwieldy accretion of published work'fiction, poetry, nonfiction, selected letters, religious writing, and 'truestory novels.' Presenting this cultural icon of the Beat Generation primarily as a writer rather than as a social rebel or media celebrity, Theado elucidates the reasons Kerouac's reputation has outlived disparaging beatnik associations and why his writings continue to attract an expanding readership. Theado takes a bookbybook approach to the sometimesconfusing canon and develops a framework for understanding Kerouac's thematic concerns, writing techniques, and artistic evolution.Proposing that the real legend of Jack Kerouac is the saga of a writer at work, Theado suggests that as recognition of Kerouac's artistic achievement grows, the Duluoz LegendKerouac's series of barely fictionalized recreations of his lifeoutgrows the genre of autobiography and becomes an intimate chronicle of a writer's stylistic maturation. Theado traces Kerouac's development as a crafter of language and contends that spontaneous prose, Kerouac's literary hallmark, may prove to be his chief claim to literary longevity.
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