Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory

by Hassan Melehy

Book Overview

Given Jack Kerouac's enduring reputation for heaving words onto paper, it might surprise some readers to see his name coupled with the word "poetics." But as a native speaker of French, he embarked on his famous "spontaneous prose" only after years of seeking techniques to overcome the restrictions he encountered in writing in a single language, English. The result was an elaborate poetics that cannot be fully understood without accounting for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501336061
• ISBN13: 9781501336065
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"