The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac's Quest for by Timothy Hunt

By Timothy Hunt

Tim Hunt’s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouac’s paintings from a brand new severe point of view with a spotlight at the author’s specified equipment of making and dealing with textual content. also, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac’s improvement of “Spontaneous Prose” to tell apart the initial test of On the Road from the extra radical scan of Visions of Cody, and to illustrate Kerouac’s transition from operating in the textual paradigm of recent print to the textual paradigm of secondary orality. From those views, Tim Hunt crafts a brand new serious method of Beat poetics and textual concept, marking an enormous contribution to the present revival of Kerouac and Beat stories underway at universities within the U.S. and out of the country, as mirrored via more and more meetings, classes, and a renewal in scholarship.

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