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Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form
Michael Hrebeniak
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Description for Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form
Paperback. Traces Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' within an experimental continuum across the arts. This book asserts that Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' - self-organizing narratives free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions - moves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 409.
This book traces Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' within an experimental continuum across the arts.""Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form"" connects the personal and creative development of the Beat generation's famous icon with cultural changes in postwar America. Michael Hrebeniak asserts that Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' - self-organizing narratives free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions - moves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process. ""Action Writing"" highlights how Kerouac made concrete his 1952 intimation of 'something beyond the novel' by assembling ideas from Beat America, modernist poetics, action painting, bebop, ... Read more
This book traces Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' within an experimental continuum across the arts.""Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form"" connects the personal and creative development of the Beat generation's famous icon with cultural changes in postwar America. Michael Hrebeniak asserts that Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' - self-organizing narratives free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions - moves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process. ""Action Writing"" highlights how Kerouac made concrete his 1952 intimation of 'something beyond the novel' by assembling ideas from Beat America, modernist poetics, action painting, bebop, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809328673
SKU
V9780809328673
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About Michael Hrebeniak
Michael Hrebeniak teaches at Cranfield and Cambridge universities and is the associate producer of Optic Nerve, an independent film company based in London. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is also the editor of Radical Poetics.
Reviews for Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form
"In Michael Hrebeniak's Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form, we at last have a full-length study of Kerouac that does justice to the depth of his intellect and the significance of his formal innovations." - The Beat Review "Michael Hrebeniak has opened up serious issues that are always overlooked - propaganda, Marcuse, Olson's Human Universe, for starters. Hrebeniak's assessment of ... Read more