The Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac: A Study of the Fiction

by Regina Weinreich

Book Overview

Regina Weinreich explores Kerouac's place in American literature by establishing the tot­al design of his work. She con­tends that he thought of his works as "one vast book" (a "Divine Comedy of Buddha") he called the Legend of Duluoz.

Weinreich finds that Kerouac's linguistic experimen­tation leads to a poetic unity rather than the linear unity com­monly associated with legends. She discusses the na­ture of his "spontaneous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809313065
• ISBN13: 9780809313068
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.5"