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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828966203321

Autore

Hunt Tim <1949->

Titolo

Kerouac's crooked road : the development of a fiction / / Tim Hunt ; with a foreword by Ann Charters and a new preface

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-280-69690-7

9786613673862

0-8093-8569-4

Edizione

[SIU Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChartersAnn <1936->

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Autobiographical fiction, American - History and criticism

Beat generation in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1981. With new preface.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An American education -- From fact to vision: the road book -- The redeeming eye.

Sommario/riassunto

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