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...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...

...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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...