Kerouac's Crooked Road: The Development of a Fiction

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Action Painting, xviii, 144-47 Bartha~, Roland, 259-60 Beat Generation, the, xvi, 90 Blake, William, 116 Bunyan, John, Pilgrim 8 Progress, 89-90 Burford, Bob, 254 Burroughs, William, 83-84, 129, 132-33, 139, 148; Junkie, 119, 134; Naked Lunch, 134, 252 Cassady, LuAnne (Mrs. Neal Cassady),5 Cassady, Neal: as character in Kerouac's fiction, 87, 91, 108, 116~18, 120; Denver youth of, 136-37; The First Third, 109, 137; Ginsberg and, 83; Joan Anderson letter, 108-9; Kerouac and, 97-98, 135, 138-39, 254 Celine, Louis-Ferdinand, 166 Charters, Ann, Kerouac, 81, 86, 98, 104, 106, 108-9, 112 Columbia University, Kerouac at, 78-79 Crawford, Joan, 157 Creeley, Robert, xviii, 154 Derrida, Jacques, 188 Dreiser, Theodore, 83-85 Duncan, Robert, xviii Eliot, T. S., 234 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 46, 49, 184-85,200 Everitt, Rae, 115-17 Factualism (Kerouac), 85-86. See Index also Burroughs, William Fiedler, Leslie, 52-54 Film, 47-51, 155-66, 212 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, xvi; The Great Gatsby, 8-10, 73, 235 Frank, Robert, 107 Freud, Sigmund, 133 Ginsberg, Allen, 84, 86, 254; The Gates of Wr(lth, 133; Howl and Other Poems, 133; interest in Cezanne, 130-·33, 183; Kerouac and, 83, 119, 133, 134; views on On the Road, 114-16, 253; views on Visions of Cody, 139-40,212 Giroux, Robert, 112, 113, 114, 115 Goodman, Benny, 110-11 Hawkins, Coleman, 146 Hemingway, Ernest, 172; The Sun Also Rises, 114 Holmes, John Clellon: The Horn, 106-7, 114; Kerouac and, 108, 114, 140, 141-42; on composition of On the Road, 83, 99, 105, HO, 113, 122; on composition of Visions of Cody, 147; on Kerouac, xv, 8, 78, 96; the scroll experiment and, 111~12 James, Henry, "The Beast in the Jungle," 236 Jazz, 146, 160, 176, 185, 189, 244 Joyce, James, 166; Ulysses, 168 Kazin, Alfred, 95 Kerouac, Gabrielle Memere Levesque (Kerouac's mother), 101, 113, 115, 120 261 Kerouac's Crooked Road Kerouac, Jack: Beat Generation, 107, 141; Desolation Angels, xviii, 252; Doctor Sax, xviii, 86-88, 90, 92, 106, 147, 155, 254: "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose," 2, 124, 127-30, 143, 167, 251, 260; Excerpts from Visions of Cady, 2, 120, 167; factualist On the Road, 82-87, 89-90, 94: Hortl, 117; "Manhattan Sketches," 175; Mexico City Blues, 147; On the Road, composition of, 108-20; On the Road, 'versions of, xvii, 4, 77-78, 97-98, 104-10, 140-41; "Origins of the Beat Generation ," 141; Pic, 4,98-107,122; Red or 1949 version of On the Road, 91-97; reputation of, xv, xviii, 252-53; revising, 2; The Subterraneans, 252; The Town and the City, 8,78-87,91,94, 99, 104, 107, 112-13, 122, 125, 136,228; Tristessa, 139; Vanity of Duluo:.:, 79; Visions of Cody, composition of, 98, 120, 134-39; Visions of Neal, 141 Kerouac, Joan Haverty (Kerouac's second wife), 108 Kerouac, Leo Alcide (Kerouac's father),79 Kerouac, Stella Sampas (Kerouac's third wife), 101 Lenrow, Elbert, 94, 95 Leslie, Alfred, 107 Lewis, R. W. B., 22 Lewis, Sinclair, 85 Lucey, Ellen, 99 Magny, Claude-Edmonde, The Age of the American Novel, 156,157,163-65,212 Melville, Herman, xviii, 46, 95-96, Ill, 114, 166; The Confidence Man, 90; Moby-Dick, 45, 50, 68, 96; Pierre, 5 Millstein, Gilbert, 253 Murray, Henry, 5 262 New School, The, Kerouac at, 85, 94,106 New Journalism, the, 251 Parker, Charlie, 146, 147 Podhorctz, Norman, 253 Poe, Edgar Allan, 49, 114, 200 Pollock, Jackson. See Action Painting Pound, Ezra, 168, 169, 171 Projective Verse, xviii Pull My Daisy, 107 Schapiro, Meyer, 130 Scroll experiment (Kerouac), 1, 10, 110-13, 117-19, 135-36, 139-40 Shrouded Traveler dream, 30, 50, 224 Sketching. See Spontaneous Prose and sketching Solomon, Carl, 135, 136, 138, 205 Spengler, Oswald, 133 Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queene,92 Spontaneous Prose and sketching, 107, 120-30, 133, 134-35; Visions of Cody and, 77, 143-47, 151,167-68,171,174-75,181, 183, 188, 210, 225,251. See also Kerouac, Jack, "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" Sullivan's Travels, 14, 15, 166 Tallman, Warren, "Kerouac's Sound," 145 Temko, Allan, 254 Twain, Mark, 46, 166, 200; Huckleberry Finn, 7, 11-12,18, 102-3,254 Weber, Brom, 86,87 White, Ed, 123 Whitman, Walt, 41, 95, Ill, 166, 200,211 Wolfe, Thomas, 81, 88-89, 251; Look Homeward, Angel, 80 Young, Lester, 146 ...