Title: Jack Kerouac's Duluoz legend
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.
Subjects: Beat generation, Myth in literature, Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Psychoanalysis and literature, Duluoz, Duluoz (Fictitious character), Characters, Self in literature, Oedipus complex in literature, American Autobiographical fiction, In literature, Critique et interprétation, Personnages, History, Beats (Persons), Psychanalyse et littérature, Histoire, Roman autobiographique américain, Histoire et critique, Œdipe (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature, Complexe d'Œdipe dans la littérature, Duluoz (Personnage fictif), Mythe dans la littérature, Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature, Beatniks, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Literature, Het Autobiografische, American Literature, English, Languages & Literatures, Kerouac, jack, 1922-1969, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
Places: United States
People: Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)