Apr 27, 2006 02:09
These are the best two paragraphs from my Kerouac essay:
The aforementioned quote is only the most miniscule cases of Kerouac’s cerebral oppression thanks to 1950s and 1960s popular culture. A focal argument in Kerouac’s literal production aesthetics has always revolved around the constituents of his writing philosophies, especially his disregard for the writer’s one true secondary devices: the revision process. It may not be true in unyielding nature, seeing as Kerouac swore by the code of “no revisions- except obvious rational mistakes, such as names of calculated insertions in act of not writing but inserting (Weinreich 3).”
In certain cases, it seems that potential readers of Kerouac’s work forget that he viewed his fiction as more of an autobiographical piece (Theado 9). His purpose for writing was to superimpose his life into an art form, utilizing syntax and paper as his medium. His peers in the Beat Generation relished in the high-brow, fast living lifestyle that brought them fame. Theado notes that “ Kerouac hoped his true legendary status would be tied to his stylistic breakthroughs in writing, not merely to his adventurous life. Unfortunately, Kerouac’s books were published in a haphazard order, a circumstance which confused readers (3).”