In this Book
- A Map of Mexico City Blues: Jack Kerouac as Poet
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
summary
In this pioneering critical study of Jack Kerouac’s book-length poem, Mexico City Blues—apoetic parallel to the writer’s fictional saga, the Duluoz Legend—James T. Jones uses a rich and flexible neoformalist approach to argue his case for the importance of Kerouac’s rarely studied poem.
After a brief summary of Kerouac’s poetic career, Jones embarks on a thorough reading of Mexico City Blues from several different perspectives: he first focuses on Kerouac’s use of autobiography in the poem and then discusses how Kerouac’s various trips to Mexico, his conversion to Buddhism, his theory of spontaneous poetics, and his attraction to blues and jazz influenced the theme, structure, and sound of Mexico City Blues.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- 2. The Novelist as Poet
- pp. 7-21
- 3. Auto/Biography
- pp. 22-50
- 6. Kerouac's Religion(s)
- pp. 102-135
- 7. The Tradition of Spontaneity
- pp. 136-161
- 8. Finding the Form
- pp. 162-183
- 9. Conclusion
- pp. 184-186
- Works Cited and Consulted
- pp. 189-191
- General Index
- pp. 193-197
- Index of Choruses
- pp. 199-202
- Author Bio
- p. 203
Additional Information
ISBN
9780809385980
Related ISBN(s)
9780809318285, 9780809330065
MARC Record
OCLC
44962590
Pages
215
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No