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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Giamo, Benedict. Kerouac, the word and the way. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606343115 |
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| Named Person: | Jack Kerouac; Jack Kerouac; Jack Kerouac |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Benedict Giamo |
| ISBN: | 0809323214 9780809323210 0809324318 9780809324316 |
| OCLC Number: | 42690123 |
| Description: | xxi, 246 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The Sorrows of Young Kerouac -- Road, Town, and City -- What IT Is? -- Tearing Time Up -- The Revelation to Ti Jean -- The Track of Glory -- The Noble Path -- Gone Beyond -- Icon for the Void -- Ethereal Flower -- Kindred Spirits -- The Lifelong Vulture and the Little Man -- Downsizing -- The Old Rugged Cross. |
| Responsibility: | Ben Giamo. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"Giamo's main purpose is to chronicle and clarify Kerouac's various spiritual quests through close examinations of the novels. Kerouac began his quest with On the Road, which also is Giamo's real starting point. To establish early themes, spiritual struggles, and stylistic shifts, however, Giamo begins with the first novel, The Town and the City, and ends with Big Sur, the final turning point in Kernouac's quest." "Kerouac was primarily a religious writer bent on testing and celebrating the profane depths and transcendent heights of experience and reporting both truly. Baptized and buried a Catholic, he was also heavily influenced by Buddhism, especially from 1954 until 1957 when he integrated traditional Eastern belief into several novels. Catholicism remained an essential force in his writing, but his study of Buddhism was serious and not solely in the service of his literary art."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Kerouac, Jack, -- 1922-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
- Quests (Expeditions) in literature.
- Beat generation in literature.
- Spiritual life in literature.
- Kerouac, Jack, -- 1922-1969 -- Critique et interprétation.
- Roman autobiographique américain -- Histoire et critique.
- Quête (Littérature).
- Beat generation dans la littérature.
- Vie spirituelle dans la littérature.
- Kerouac, Jack
- Roman
- Spiritualität

