Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 255 p)
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781501314377
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9781501314360
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9781501314353
Content:
"Given Jack Kerouac's enduring reputation for heaving words onto paper, it might surprise some readers to see his name coupled with the word "poetics." But as a native speaker of French, he embarked on his famous "spontaneous prose" only after years of seeking techniques to overcome the restrictions he encountered in writing in a single language, English. The result was an elaborate poetics that cannot be fully understood without accounting for his bilingual thinking and practice.Of the more than twenty-five biographies of Kerouac, few have seriously examined his relationship to the French language and the reason for his bilingualism, the Québec Diaspora. Although this background has long been recognized in French-language treatments, it is a new dimension in Anglophone studies of his writing. In a theoretically informed discussion, Hassan Melehy explores how Kerouac's poetics of exile involves meditations on moving between territories and languages. Far from being a naïve pursuit, Kerouac's writing practice not only responded but contributed to some of the major aesthetic and philosophical currents of the twentieth century in which notions such as otherness and nomadism took shape. Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory offers a major reassessment of a writer who, despite a readership that extends over much of the globe, remains poorly appreciated at home."--
Content:
"A reassessment of Jack Kerouac's poetic theory and practice from the perspective of their central yet most overlooked component: the fact that he thought and worked in two languages, his native French and his adopted English"--
Content:
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Kerouac, Exile, and the Force of Literature -- 1. Unsettlements -- 2. On and Off the Franco-American Road -- 3. Writing in Real Time -- 4. Movements of Return -- 5. The Roots of Abandonment -- Conclusion: Transnational American Literatures -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501314346
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Melehy, Hassan, 1960 - Kerouac New York NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 ISBN 9781501336065
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501314346
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781501314377
