...Hassan Melehy Melehy’s essay explores Jack Kerouac’s relationship to the Québécois diaspora of which his Massachusetts family was a part, his experience of English as a foreign language, and how these inform his aesthetics. Melehy situates the discussion in debates on multilingualism in the study...

..., Black has turned twenty years of research into a compelling and detailed account of Eugene O’Neill and his plays. Martha G. Bower, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester. By Ben Giamo. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xxi...

... Rosemary A. King. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2004. xvii, 190 pp. $39.95. South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden. By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 190 pp. Paper, $32.00. These books explore how words and spaces...

... 2008 General Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination . By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed. Christopher Castiglia and Glenn...

...Allen Hibbard Duke University Press 2007 The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas . By Rob Johnson. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2006. 224 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95. Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form . By Michael Hrebeniak...

... Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction. By James T. Jones. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 278 pp. $34.95. Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, a...

... the poetry, wherein we can contemplate more keenly the resilience of imagination on the other side of loss. James Applewhite, Duke University Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an...

... Corso.By Michael Skau. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. x, 233 pp. $34.95. A familiar 1969 photograph shows Gregory Corso at Jack Kerouac’s funeral. Corso’s overcoated figure and rebellious hair...

... was writing, it was like Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a collection of stories which sketched the view of the times. And he saw himself on the scale of the mythog- rapher’ ’’ (30–31). Snyder’s comment directs readers outward from Kerouac’s...

... Michael Skau. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. x, 233 pp. $34.95. A familiar 1969 photograph shows Gregory Corso at Jack Kerouac’s funeral. Corso’s overcoated figure and rebellious hair are silhouetted darkly against...

... the claims of a wide variety of writers (principally Bellow, Kerouac, and De- Lillo but also Naipaul, Steinbeck, Ginsberg, Levertov, O’Neill, and Faulkner) who leverage their authority on the representation of visionary experience...

... subtlety’’ are blatant understatements. In a letter to Ginsberg, Kerouac observed that Corso ‘‘looks like a great beachcomber poet and in Desolation Angels the Corso character appears...

... one dedicated to the post–World War II heyday of road narratives, including Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) and John A. Williams’s This Is My Country Too (1964), which analyzes how such narratives construct racialized masculinity. Brigham’s excellent literary historicization of the road...

... both narrative and thematic content, moving from more insular tales of the white nuclear family to later epics of Southern and Western culture. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Grace surveys Kerouac’s poetry...

... both narrative and thematic content, moving from more insular tales of the white nuclear family to later epics of Southern and Western culture. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Grace surveys Kerouac’s poetry...

... and thematic content, moving from more insular tales of the white nuclear family to later epics of Southern and Western culture. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Grace surveys Kerouac’s poetry and prose to...

... years in detail, explor- ing how Faulkner experimented with both narrative and thematic content, moving from more insular tales of the white nuclear family to later epics of Southern and Western culture. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan...

... both narrative and thematic content, moving from more insular tales of the white nuclear family to later epics of Southern and Western culture. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Grace surveys Kerouac’s poetry...

... and thematic content, moving from more insular tales of the white nuclear family to later epics of Southern and Western culture. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Grace surveys Kerouac’s poetry and prose to...