http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/jack-kerouac Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:57:23 -0400 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:57:23 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/51/telepathic-shock-and-the-rush-of-it-all-jack-kerouacs-use-of-language-in-on-the-road By Greg Pavlisko - Much of the “feeling” Kerouac was looking to produce came from the influence of the emerging bebop scene. The more experimentally inclined improvisers like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie shook loose the singular measure and diatonic development of the standard jazz ballad. Kerouac reveled in bebop and the way it made him feel and sought to bring that into his writing, “Kerouac introduces constant fluctuations of line speed over pulse with repeated syllables and disjunctive punctuation, akin to the way that a jazz soloist trips himself up to defy prediction” (Hrebeniak... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:30 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/51/telepathic-shock-and-the-rush-of-it-all-jack-kerouacs-use-of-language-in-on-the-road