Kerouac's crooked road : the development of a fiction / Tim Hunt ; with a foreword by Ann Charters and a new preface.

Now a classic, Kerouac's Crooked Road was one of the first critical works on the legendary Beat writer to analyze his work as serious literary art, placing it in the broader American literary tradition with canonical writers like Herman Melville and Mark Twain. Author Tim Hunt explores Kerouac&...

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Main Author: Hunt, Tim, 1949-
Other Authors: Charters, Ann, 1936-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Edition:SIU Press ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary:Now a classic, Kerouac's Crooked Road was one of the first critical works on the legendary Beat writer to analyze his work as serious literary art, placing it in the broader American literary tradition with canonical writers like Herman Melville and Mark Twain. Author Tim Hunt explores Kerouac's creative process and puts his work in conversation with classic American literature and with critical theory. This edition includes a new preface by the author, which takes a discerning look at the implications of the 2007 publication of the original typewrit.
Item Description:Originally published: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1981. With new preface.
Physical Description:1 online resource (lx, 262 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780809385690
0809385694
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.