Jack Kerouac's Duluoz legend
Subtitle: the mythic form of an autobiographical fiction
By: James T. Jones.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Characters -- Duluoz.; Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States.; Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature.; Oedipus complex in literature.; Duluoz (Fictitious character); Myth in literature.; Self in literature.; Beat generation.
Description: "In the only critical examination of all of Jack Kerouac's published prose, James T. Jones turns to Freud to show how the great Beat writer used the Oedipus myth to shape not only his individual works but also the entire body of his writing."--BOOK JACKET.

"Like Balzac, Jones explains, Kerouac conceived an overall plan for his total writing corpus, which he called the Duluoz Legend after Jack Duluoz, his fictional alter ego. While Kerouac's work attracts biographical treatment - the ninth full-length biography was published in 1998 - Jones takes a Freudian approach to focus on the form of the work.

Noting that even casual readers recognize family relationships as the basis for Kerouac's autobiographical prose, Jones discusses these relationships in terms of Freud's notion of the Oedipus complex."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-271) and index.