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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 400–403.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Christopher Gair Ironically, given Kerouac’s status as the quintessential Beat, Hassan Melehy’s Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory is the most radical of the four books reviewed here. Indeed, Melehy rightly commences with the claim that this positioning of Kerouac “limits understanding...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 589–615.
Published: 01 September 2012
...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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 210–211.
Published: 01 March 2001
... canon. Rhonda Frederick, Boston College Liar! Liar! Jack Kerouac—Novelist. By R. J. Ellis. London: Greenwich Exchange. 1999. 294 pp. £13.95. At one point in Kerouac’s Tristessa, the narrator confesses, ‘‘I’m a liar Such self-conscious unreliability, R. J. Ellis argues, percolates through...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 644–646.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... 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 may combine and recombine over time to create new...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 195–196.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 647–648.
Published: 01 September 2001
... illumination, 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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 June 2001
... back to 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...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 852–854.
Published: 01 December 2007
...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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 424–425.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of imagination on the other side of loss. James Applewhite, Duke University Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction. By James T. Jones. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 881–882.
Published: 01 December 2000
... 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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 426–427.
Published: 01 June 2001
... 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...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 189–193.
Published: 01 March 2020
... on the specificity of this encounter as rooted in a particular time, place, and historical sensibility. He uses five chapters to examine how such an anchored yet “abyssal” site of trauma contours for Glissant the possibilities of memory, subjectivity, and consciousness. Jack Kerouac and the Traditions...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 880–881.
Published: 01 December 2000
... 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...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2003
... 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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 655–656.
Published: 01 September 2001
... illumination, 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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 656–657.
Published: 01 September 2001
... illumination, 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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 658–660.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of the super- ego’’ (321) without further clarification. In spite of the paucity of psychoana- lytic illumination, 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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 660–661.
Published: 01 September 2001
... illumination, 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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 661–662.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of the super- ego’’ (321) without further clarification. In spite of the paucity of psychoana- lytic illumination, 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...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 663–664.
Published: 01 September 2001
... illumination, 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...