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Author:   Steven Belletto (Lafayette College, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9781009423564

ISBN 10:   1009423568
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   27 June 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Kerouac's concept of his duluoz legend Ann Charters; 2. Kerouac and the profession of authorship Matt Theado; 3. Truth in confession: the foundation of Kerouac's literary experiment Nancy Grace; 4. The textuality of performance: Kerouac's spontaneous prose Tim Hunt; 5. The spontaneous aesthetic in the subterraneans George Mouritidas; 6. Kerouac and the 1950s Douglas Field; 7. The impact of on the road on the sixties' counterculture Kurt Hemmer; 8. Vanity of duluoz and the 1960s David Stephen Calonne; 9. Late Kerouac, or the conflicted 'king of the beatniks' Steven Belletto; 10. Visions of Cody as metafiction Michael Hrebeniak; 11. Making the past present: Kerouac and memory Erik Mortenson; 12. Spun rhythms: Kerouac as poet Regina Weinreich; 13. Kerouac's representations of women Ronna Johnson; 14. Kerouac and blackness Amor Kohli; 15. Kerouac, multilingualism, and global culture Hassan Melehy; 16. The two phases of Kerouac's American Buddhism Sarah Haynes; 17. Kerouac's ambivalences as an environmental writer Franca Bellarsi; 18. The essentials of archival prose Jean-Christophe Cloutier.

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'Steven Belleto's collection is an indispensable contribution to the ever-growing field of Beat studies and a useful addition to American studies in general … Highly recommended.' B. Almon, Choice

Author Information

Steven Belletto is author of The Beats: A Literary History (2020) (a Choice Outstanding Academic title) and No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (2012). He also edited The Cambridge Companion to the Beats (2017) and American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960 (2018). He is a professor of English at Lafayette College.

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