Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780902843776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive
Author: A descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs-archive
Author: Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive
Author: Am Here Books, VaudA Descriptive Cataloque of the William S. Burroughs Archive
Author: A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive
Author: International Center of Art and CommunicationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Burroughs Unbound
Author: S. E. GontarskiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501362208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship, Burroughs Unbound also directly engages with the growing fields of textual studies, archival research, and genetic criticism, asking crucial questions thereby about the nature of archives and their relationship to a writer's work. These questions about the archive concern not only the literary medium. In the 1960s and 1970s Burroughs collaborated with filmmakers, sound technicians, and musicians, who helped re-contextualized his writings in other media. Burroughs Unbound examines these collaborations and explores how such multiple authorship complicates the authority of the archive as a final or complete repository of an author's work. It takes Burroughs seriously as a radical theorist and practitioner who critiqued drug laws, sexual practice, censorship, and what we today call a society of control. More broadly, his work continues to challenge our common assumptions about language, authorship, textual stability, and the archive in its broadest definition.
William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century
Author: Joan HawkinsPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253041368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs’ overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing together newspapers, magazines, letters, book reviews, classical literature, audio recordings, photographs, and films, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, excerpts from his dream journals, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife, Joan. William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays, interviews, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars, respected artists, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points—literary studies, media studies, popular culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, history, and geography. Ultimately, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours.
William S. Burroughs Literary Archive
Author: William S. Burroughs
Author: Joe MaynardPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Burroughs Unbound
Author: S. E. GontarskiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501362194
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship, Burroughs Unbound also directly engages with the growing fields of textual studies, archival research, and genetic criticism, asking crucial questions thereby about the nature of archives and their relationship to a writer's work. These questions about the archive concern not only the literary medium. In the 1960s and 1970s Burroughs collaborated with filmmakers, sound technicians, and musicians, who helped re-contextualized his writings in other media. Burroughs Unbound examines these collaborations and explores how such multiple authorship complicates the authority of the archive as a final or complete repository of an author's work. It takes Burroughs seriously as a radical theorist and practitioner who critiqued drug laws, sexual practice, censorship, and what we today call a society of control. More broadly, his work continues to challenge our common assumptions about language, authorship, textual stability, and the archive in its broadest definition.