Understanding Jack Kerouac
By: Matt Theado
Series: Understanding contemporary American literature; Understanding contemporary American literature
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781423745051
Subjects: American; LITERARY CRITICISM; Beat generation in literature; Critique et interpre tation; Criticism and interpretation; General
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-196) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Chronology; title: Biography and background; title: Kerouac's technique; title: The town and the city (1950); title: On the road (1957); title: Visions of Cody (1972); title: Doctor Sax: Faust part three (1959); title: Maggie Cassidy (1959) and The subterraneans (1958); title: Tristessa (1960), Visions of Gerard, (1963) and Buddhism; title: Desolation angels (1965) and the Dharma bums (1958); title: Big sur (1962); title: Later work; title: Appendix; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.