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Autore |
Hunt Tim <1949-> |
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Titolo |
Kerouac's crooked road : the development of a fiction / / Tim Hunt ; with a foreword by Ann Charters and a new preface |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-69690-7 |
9786613673862 |
0-8093-8569-4 |
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Edizione |
[SIU Press ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Autobiographical fiction, American - History and criticism |
Beat generation in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1981. With new preface. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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An American education -- From fact to vision: the road book -- The redeeming eye. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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