The Textuality of Soulwork

Tim Hunts The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouacs Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouacs work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the authors unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouacs development of Spontaneous Prose to differentiate the preliminary experiment of On the Road from the more radical experiment of Visions of Cody, and to demonstrate Kerouacs transition from working within the textual paradigm of modern print to the textual paradigm of secondary orality. From these perspectives, Tim Hunt crafts a new critical approach to Beat poetics and textual theory, marking an important contribution to the current revival of Kerouac and Beat studies underway at universities in the U.S. and abroad, as reflected by a growing number of conferences, courses, and a renewal in scholarship.