Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs And The Performance Of Writing

Burroughs Unbound: An Atrophied Introduction / S.E. Gontarski -- Part 1. Theory -- Weaponized Aesthetics and Dystopian Modernism: Cut-ups, Playbacks, Pick-ups and the 'Limits of Control' from Burroughs to Deleuze / S.E. Gontarski -- Pay It All Back: Writing Paranoia-Paranoid Writing / Nathan Moore -- The Tension of Possibility: Reading Closure in Ah Pook through the Sum of the Multiframe / Ash Connell-Gonzalez -- Fluidity and Fixity in William S. Burroughs' Writing / Allen Hibbard -- Part 2. Texts --Making Dead Fingers Talk / Oliver Harris -- Whale Drek: The Lost Footnotes of Naked Lunch / Jed Birmingham -- 'There are no typographical errors in this edition': Burroughs's Textual Infection of the New York School / Nick Sturm -- 'I spent months in the morgue': Williams S. Burroughs' appropropriation of TIME magazine / Tomasz Stompor -- Digitizing the Word Hoard: Remediating Counter-Cultural Archives after the American Century / Alex Wermer-Colan -- Mess, Taste, and Gastric Criticism: Digesting Naked Lunch / Rona Cran -- Part 3. Performance -- Performance in the Work of William S. Burroughs / John M. Bennett -- Burroughs, Bowie, and the Reshaping of the Counterculture / Barry Faulk -- The Alternative Press is News / Blake Stricklin -- Appendix A. Evergreen on the Air: Barney Rosset on Censorship and Publishing Naked Lunch / [Transcript of 1962, WNYC radio broadcast], Barney Rosset, Publisher, Grove Press, 1951-1986 -- Appendix B. 'Lectures on the Virus,' selections from Burroughs's lectures at CCNY, 1974 -- Appendix C. Burroughs Manifest, the 'lost, found and lost again' Burroughs Archive at Florida State University, 12 September 1980 purchase -- Appendix D. Supplemental Bucher purchases, 12 December, -- Appendix E. Burroughs and Bucher, letters and notes 1978-9, 1984 -- Appendix F. 'A 30-year wait. A 16-mile journey.' The story of the 'lost' Burroughs Archive at Florida State University.

• | Author: S. E. Gontarski
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 450 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501381091
• | ISBN-13: 9781501381096