Kerouac and America on the Road to Postmodernism
Kerouac and America on the Road to Postmodernism

Summary/Abstract: This study introduces Jack Kerouac as an author “who intuited aspects of the postmodern and developed fictional strategies and projects that both express and engage our contemporary moment” (Hunt, xxvi) and anticipated formal, artistic and cultural phenomena that would be theorized later in postmodernist thought. On the Road, his most popular work is presented in its quality of transitional work from The Town and the City, a first published traditional work, to experimental novels such as Visions of Cody.

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