Kerouac's crooked road : the development of a fiction /
Hunt, Tim, 1949-
Kerouac's crooked road : the development of a fiction / Tim Hunt ; with a foreword by Ann Charters and a new preface. - SIU Press ed. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (lx, 262 pages)
Originally published: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1981. With new preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An American education -- From fact to vision: the road book -- The redeeming eye.
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.
9780809385690 (electronic bk.) 0809385694 (electronic bk.)
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road.
On the road (Kerouac, Jack)
Autobiographical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Beats (Persons) in literature.
Beatniks dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Autobiographical fiction, American.
Beats (Persons) in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS3521.E735 / O534 2010eb
813/.54
Kerouac's crooked road : the development of a fiction / Tim Hunt ; with a foreword by Ann Charters and a new preface. - SIU Press ed. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (lx, 262 pages)
Originally published: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1981. With new preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An American education -- From fact to vision: the road book -- The redeeming eye.
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.
9780809385690 (electronic bk.) 0809385694 (electronic bk.)
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road.
On the road (Kerouac, Jack)
Autobiographical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Beats (Persons) in literature.
Beatniks dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Autobiographical fiction, American.
Beats (Persons) in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS3521.E735 / O534 2010eb
813/.54