Jack Kerouac’s Fictional Style: A Critical Study
Abstract
This study entitled “Jack Kerouac’s Fictional Style: A Critical Study” aims to explore the ways in which his thematic, linguistic and structural pattern dealt in his fictions. This research shows Jack Kerouac’s literary influences. It also shows Kerouac’s fictional style and its narrative design. This further study presents Jack Kerouac’s employment of automatic writing style and his spontaneous methods.
(Keywords: Experimental Prose, Spontaneous Writing, Linear Structure, Fragmentary, Juxtaposition of Images.)
Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac to a family of Franco-Americans as a French-Canadian Child in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. His parents, Leo-Alcide Kerouac and Gabrielle-Ange Levesque were natives of the provincial of Quebec in Canada. At an early age, he was profoundly marked by the death of his elder brother Gerard, that moved him to write the book Visions of Gerard. Kerouac’s athletic talent led him to become star on his local football team and this achievement earned him scholarships to Boston College and Columbia University in New York. …show more content…
He was never content to imitate. Even though, that was precisely what he did with his first novel, The Town and the City. Kerouac considered the novel The Town and the City widely compared to the work of Thomas Wolfe, his worst book. By the time, he finished Town, he had already developed his friendship with Neal Cassady and lived many of the events he writes about in On the Road. Regina Weinreich points out, as Kerouac neared the completion of Town, he ″was already thinking beyond the Wolfe an style″ (18). Essentially, Kerouac wanted to finish The Town and the City he could move on to a more experimental type of prose: ″Spontaneous
Abstract
This study entitled “Jack Kerouac’s Fictional Style: A Critical Study” aims to explore the ways in which his thematic, linguistic and structural pattern dealt in his fictions. This research shows Jack Kerouac’s literary influences. It also shows Kerouac’s fictional style and its narrative design. This further study presents Jack Kerouac’s employment of automatic writing style and his spontaneous methods.
(Keywords: Experimental Prose, Spontaneous Writing, Linear Structure, Fragmentary, Juxtaposition of Images.)
Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac to a family of Franco-Americans as a French-Canadian Child in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. His parents, Leo-Alcide Kerouac and Gabrielle-Ange Levesque were natives of the provincial of Quebec in Canada. At an early age, he was profoundly marked by the death of his elder brother Gerard, that moved him to write the book Visions of Gerard. Kerouac’s athletic talent led him to become star on his local football team and this achievement earned him scholarships to Boston College and Columbia University in New York. …show more content…
He was never content to imitate. Even though, that was precisely what he did with his first novel, The Town and the City. Kerouac considered the novel The Town and the City widely compared to the work of Thomas Wolfe, his worst book. By the time, he finished Town, he had already developed his friendship with Neal Cassady and lived many of the events he writes about in On the Road. Regina Weinreich points out, as Kerouac neared the completion of Town, he ″was already thinking beyond the Wolfe an style″ (18). Essentially, Kerouac wanted to finish The Town and the City he could move on to a more experimental type of prose: ″Spontaneous