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Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction
by James T. Jones
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0809322633
- ISBN 13
- 9780809322633
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. xii (iv), 278 (2) pp, . First Edition, 1999. Not Price Clipped. Only the faintest wear to top edge spine dj with a crease to top fore-edge pp. 14 & 17, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean. 6.25" x 9.25." Purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. DJ in removable acetate protector. "In the only critical examination of all of Jack Kerouac's published prose, The author turns to Freud to show how the great Beat writer used the Oedipus myth to shape not only his individual works but also the entire body of his writing, and Like Balzac, Jones explains, Kerouac conceived an overall plan for his total writing corpus, which he called the Duluoz Legend after Jack Duluoz, his fictional alter ego.".
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005141
- Title
- Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction
- Author
- James T. Jones
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0809322633
- ISBN 13
- 9780809322633
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Place of Publication
- Carbondale and Edwardsville
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM MYTH IN LITERATURE OEDIPUS COMPLEX IN LITERATURE PSYCHONALUSIS AND LITERATURE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION CHARACTERS DULUOZ KEROUAC JACK (1922-1969) CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION SELF IN LITERATURE BEAT GENERATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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