Kerouac, the Word and the Way : Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester

Kerouac, the Word and the Way : Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester

From Southern Illinois University Press: "Giamo’s primary purpose is to chronicle and clarify Kerouac’s various spiritual quests through close examinations of [his] 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 Kerouac’s quest....Giamo also seeks IT—'a vital force in the experience of living that takes one by surprise, suspending for the moment belief in the "real" concrete grey everyday of facts of self and selfhood . . . its various meanings, paths, and oscillations: from romantic lyricism to the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being and from the void-pit of the Great World Snake to the joyous pain of amorous love, and, finally, from Catholic/Buddhist serenity to the onset of penitential martyrhood.'"

Giamo, Benedict

Southern Illinois University Press

2000

English

Book

Middle 20th century, United States

No

9780809323210

246

Carbondale, Illinois

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