Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination
Michael Dowdy
273 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1403968500
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Language: English
Publish: 1181286000000
An exploration of Kerouac’s fiction, poetry, religious writing, journals, and correspondence. It encompasses his fictional rewriting of his personal life, his life-long quest for spiritual enlightenment, and his resolute belief in the blending of popular and academic cultural artifacts to create voices and forms to speak of and to a new age.