William S. Burroughs at the front : critical reception, 1959-1989 /
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| Imprint: | Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1991. |
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| Description: | 274 p. : port. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1342898 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Points of Intersection: An Overview of William S. Burroughs and His Critics
- 1950s
- 2. The Book Burners and Sweet Sixteen
- 3. Anyone Who Can Pick Up a Frying Pan Owns Death
- 1960s
- 4. Burroughs' Naked Lunch
- 5. UGH . .
- 6. Responses to "UGH . . ."
- 7. The Subtracting Machine: The Work of William Burroughs Ihab Hassan
- 8. Notes on Burroughs
- 9. Objections to William Burroughs
- 10. The Algebra of Need
- 11. William Burroughs and the Literature of Addiction
- 1970s
- 12. Rub Out the Word
- 13. He's Just Wild about Writing
- 14. The End of the Body: Radical Space in Burroughs
- 15. Listening to Burroughs' Voice
- 16. The Broken Circuit
- 17. On The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
- 18. "Cut-Ups": A Synema of the Text
- 1980s
- 19. Beckett, Proust, and Burroughs and the Perils of "Image Warfare"
- 20. Freedom through Fantasy in the Recent Novels of William S. Burroughs Jennie Skerl
- 21. Burroughs' Theater of Illusion Cities of the Red Night
- 22. Burroughs' Western
- 23. The Postmodern Anus Parody and Utopia in Two Recent Novels by William Burroughs
- 24. 'El Hombre Invisible' Robin Lydenberg
- 25. On Burroughs' Art
- 26. The Return to Narrative
- Afterword
- 27. My Purpose is to Write for the Space Age
- Selected Bibliography