Regina Weinreich: The Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac – A Study of the Fiction

The book offers the first comprehensive examination of Jack Kerouac’s place in American literature by establishing the total design of his fictional oeuvre, contending that he envisioned his works as “one vast book” he called the Legend of Duluoz, which he described as a “Divine Comedy of Buddha.”
Weinreich focuses on Kerouac’s innovative “spontaneous bop prosody,” a technique of linguistic experimentation that produces poetic unity rather than the linear unity typically associated with traditional narratives, and she relates this method to influences including Thomas Wolfe and Henry Miller.