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Title:

William S. Burroughs at the front : critical reception, 1959-1989 / edited by Jennie Skerl and Robin Lydenberg.

Publisher:

Southern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1991

Description:

vi, 274 p. : port. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Burroughs, William S.,--1914---Criticism and interpretation.

Other Authors:

Lydenberg, Robin, 1947-
Skerl, Jennie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-274).

Contents:

Listening to Burroughs' voice / Neal Oxenhandler -- The broken circuit / John Tytell -- On The last words of Dutch Schultz / Eric Mottram -- "Cut-ups" : a Synema of the text / Anne Friedberg -- Beckett, Proust, and Burroughs and the perils of "Image warfare" / Nicholas Zurbrugg -- Freedom through fantasy in the recent novels of William S. Burroughs / Jennie Skerl -- Burroughs' theater of illusion : Cities of the red night / Steven Shaviro -- Burroughs' western / David Glover -- The postmodern anus : parody and utopia in two recent novels by William Burroughs / Wayne Pounds -- 'El hombre invisible' / Robin Lydenberg -- On Burroughs' art / James Grauerholz -- Cut-up closure : the return to narrative / Oliver C.G. Harris -- My purpose is to write for the space age / William S. Burroughs.
Points of intersection : an overview of William S. Burroughs and his critics / Robin Lydenberg and Jennie Skerl -- The book burners and sweet sixteen / John Ciardi -- Anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death / Alan Ansen -- Burroughs' Naked lunch / Mary McCarthy -- UGH ... / John Willett -- Responses to "UGH ..." / John Calder ... [et al.] -- The subtracting machine : the work of William Burroughs / Ihab Hassan -- Notes on Burroughs / Marshall McLuhan -- Objections to William Burroughs / David Lodge -- The algebra of need / Theodore Solotaroff -- William Burroughs and the literature of addiction / Frank D. McConnell -- Rub out the word / Tony Tanner -- He's just wild about writing / Alfred Kazin -- The end of the body : radical space in Burroughs / Cary Nelson --

ISBN:

9780809315864
0809315866
9780809315857
0809315858

OCLC:

(OCoLC)20935146

LCCN:

90009403

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)