All the news not fit to print / Blake Stricklin -- Appendix F. "A 30-year wait. A 16-mile journey." The story of the "lost" Burroughs Archive at Florida State University. 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: paranoid writing/writing paranoia / Nathan Moore -- The tension of possibility: reading closure in Ah Pook is here through the multiframe / Ash Connell-Gonzalez -- Fluidity and fixity in William S. Burroughs' writing: the text will not hold / Allen Hibbard -- Part 2. Texts -- Making Dead fingers talk / Oliver Harris -- Whale Drek: The lost footnotes of the Olympia press 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: William S. Burroughs meets "Ziggy Stardust" / Barry Faulk -- All the news not fit to print / Blake Stricklin -- Appendix A. Evergreen on the air: Barney Rosset on censorship and publishing Naked lunch -- Appendix B. Lectures on the Virus, May 3-8, 1974, Burroughs's Archive at Ohio State University -- Appendix C. Burroughs Manifest, Burroughs Archive at Florida State University, September 12, 1980 purchase -- Appendix D. Supplemental Bucher purchases, December 12, 1990 -- Appendix E. Burroughs and Bucher, correspondence 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.
Summary:
"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 and musicians, who 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 challenges common assumptions about language, authorship, and the archive in its broadest definition"-- Provided by publisher.
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