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Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics: A Study of the Fiction
Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics A Study of the Fiction Author:Regina Weinreich While a legend has developed about the man Jack Kerouac, there has not been a thorough study of what he wrote. This is the first book to explore his place in American literature by establishing the total design of his work. Regina Weinreich contends that Kerouac wrote with this grand design in mind: that he thought of his works as ... more »147;one vast book a Divine Comedy of Buddha that he called The Legend of Duluoz. The nature of Kerouacs spontaneous bop prosody is discussed in relation to the work of Thomas Wolfe and Henry Miller. Kerouac compared his loose style to that of a jazz horn-player sounding one long note. While this explains Kerouacs method, Weinreich seeks further to define the unity of his works, from The Town and the City, On the Road, and Visions of Cody to Desolation Angels and Vanity of Duluoz, which she argues brings the legend full circle. Regina Weinreich draws together the threads of artistic influences that ultimately define Jacks writing....William Burroughs Regina Weinreich has done Kerouacs work the long overdue favor of the attention of a first rate mind....John Clellon Holmes« less