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Title William S. Burroughs cutting up the century / edited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan ; contributing editors, Charles Cannon, Tony Brewer, and Landon Palmer
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 434 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cutting Up the Century / Oliver Harris -- Burroughs and biography: an interview with Barry Miles / Oliver Harris -- The Nova Convention : celebrating the Burroughs of Downtown New York / Kristen Galvin -- The disembodied fry: William S. Burroughs and vocal performance / Landon Palmer -- William S. Burroughs' Spirit of Collaboration / Allen Hibbard -- Burroughs and the biosphere, 1974-1997 / Kathleen Gray -- Beat regionalism: Burroughs in Mexico, Burroughs in Women's Studies -- Interference zones: William Burroughs in the interstices of globalization / Timothy S. Murphy -- Cut-Up City: William S. Burroughs' "St. Louis Return" / Eric Sandweiss -- William S. Burroughs' Imperial Decadence: subversive literature in the cynical age of the American century / Alex Wermer-Colan -- Naked Lunch and the Art of Incompleteness: the use of genre in Burroughs' book and Cronenberg's film / Joshua Vasquez -- Queer outlaws losing: the betrayal of the outlaw undergrounds in The Place of Dead Roads / Kurt Hemmer -- Rimbaud and Genet, Burroughs' favorite mirrors / VĂ©ronique Lane -- Cross the Wounded Galaxies: a conversation about the Cut-Up Trilogy / Davis Schneiderman and Oliver Harris -- "Word Falling ... Photo Falling": William S. Burroughs and the word as written image / Blake Stricklin -- Mutable Forms : The Proto-Ecology of William Burroughs' Early Cut-Ups / Chad Weidner -- William S. Burroughs, transcendence porn, and The Ticket That Exploded / Katherine Streip -- Gender trouble: a critical roundtable on Burroughs and gender / Ann Douglas, Anne Waldman, and Regina Weinreich -- The Burroughs Effect / Anne Waldman
Summary 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. It 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 31, 2019)
Subject Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 fast
Burroughs, William S. 1914-1997 gnd
Subject Cut-ups (Literary form)
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Cut-ups (Literary form)
Cut-up
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Hawkins, Joan, 1953- editor.
Wermer-Colan, Alex, editor.
Cannon, Charles, contributor.
Brewer, Tony, contributor.
Palmer, Landon, contributor.
Harris, Oliver (Oliver C. G.)
LC no. 2018026007
ISBN 9780253041357
025304135X
9780253041364
0253041368