"Action Writing: Jack Kerouac s Wild Form" connects the personal and creative development of the Beat generation s famous icon with societal changes in postwar America. Michael Hrebeniak asserts that Jack Kerouac s wild form writing that is free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions moves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process. "Action Writing" highlights how Kerouac made concrete his 1952 intimation of something beyond the novel by assembling ideas from Beat America, modernist poetics, action painting,...