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Jack Kerouac
Scope|Overview
Sources|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
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Scope: Jack Kerouac was a 20th Century American author from Lowell, Massachusetts. He was a member of a group of writers known as The Beat Generation. He is most famous for his works On the Road and The Town and the City. In 1955 he received the American Academy of Arts and Sciences grant for his works. His novels and poetry remain popular today and are included on college reading lists.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF PS228.B6 E53 2007
Encyclopedia of Beat Literature
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CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Jack Kerouacs works are listed in our on-line catalog under, Kerouac, Jack and under individual titles, i. e. On The Road.
Books written by and about Jack Kerouac have the call number(s):
PS 3521.E6
PS 3521.E735
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
Giamo, Benedict. Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Lardas,John. The Bop Apocalypse: the Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
REF PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction Vol.4
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 2 American Novelists Since World War II
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 16 The Beats, Literary bohemians in postwar America
REF PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th Century Writers Vol. 3
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
WEB
SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Literary Kicks
http://litkicks.com
Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
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Authors Research Guide
Updated
10/22/2007
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