Why Kerouac matters : the lessons of On the road (they're not what you think)
Leland, John (1959-)
Why Kerouac matters : the lessons of On the road (they're not what you think) / John Leland - New York : Viking , 2007 - 205 p. ; 22 cm
Girls, visions, everything: the education of Sal Paradise -- Growing up Kerouac -- Parable of the wet hitchhiker -- What would Jack do? -- Paradise among the Dingledodies: the parables of men -- Mad ones -- Sal's guide to work and money -- Book of lost fathers -- True story of the world is a French movie: the parables of love and sex -- How not to pick up girls -- Family guy -- We don't go skating like the Scott Fitzgeralds: the parables of jazz -- Tao of Orooni -- We know time -- Visions of Sal: the book of revelations -- Holy goofs -- Ghosts -- Visions -- Aftermath: success and its discontents -- Sad Paradise and the lessons unlearned -- Notes on sources -- Acknowledgments.
From the Publisher: Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the novel than that. In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel, arguing that it still matters because at its core it is full of lessons about how to grow up. Leland's focus is on Sal Paradise, the Kerouac alter ego, who has always been overshadowed by his fictional running buddy Dean Moriarty. Leland examines the lessons that Paradise absorbs and dispenses on his novelistic journey to manhood, and how those lessons - about work and money, love and sex, art and holiness - still reverberate today. He shows how On the Road is a primer for male friendship and the cultivation of traditional family values, and contends that the stereotype of the two wild and crazy guys obscures the novel's core themes of the search for atonement, redemption, and divine revelation. Why Kerouac Matters offers a new take on Kerouac's famous novel, overturning many misconceptions about it and making clear the themes Kerouac was trying to impart.
English
9780670063253
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
Autobiographical fiction, American---History and criticism
92 KER
Why Kerouac matters : the lessons of On the road (they're not what you think) / John Leland - New York : Viking , 2007 - 205 p. ; 22 cm
Girls, visions, everything: the education of Sal Paradise -- Growing up Kerouac -- Parable of the wet hitchhiker -- What would Jack do? -- Paradise among the Dingledodies: the parables of men -- Mad ones -- Sal's guide to work and money -- Book of lost fathers -- True story of the world is a French movie: the parables of love and sex -- How not to pick up girls -- Family guy -- We don't go skating like the Scott Fitzgeralds: the parables of jazz -- Tao of Orooni -- We know time -- Visions of Sal: the book of revelations -- Holy goofs -- Ghosts -- Visions -- Aftermath: success and its discontents -- Sad Paradise and the lessons unlearned -- Notes on sources -- Acknowledgments.
From the Publisher: Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the novel than that. In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel, arguing that it still matters because at its core it is full of lessons about how to grow up. Leland's focus is on Sal Paradise, the Kerouac alter ego, who has always been overshadowed by his fictional running buddy Dean Moriarty. Leland examines the lessons that Paradise absorbs and dispenses on his novelistic journey to manhood, and how those lessons - about work and money, love and sex, art and holiness - still reverberate today. He shows how On the Road is a primer for male friendship and the cultivation of traditional family values, and contends that the stereotype of the two wild and crazy guys obscures the novel's core themes of the search for atonement, redemption, and divine revelation. Why Kerouac Matters offers a new take on Kerouac's famous novel, overturning many misconceptions about it and making clear the themes Kerouac was trying to impart.
English
9780670063253
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
Autobiographical fiction, American---History and criticism
92 KER
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