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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: William S. Burroughs at the front. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1991 (OCoLC)556506987 |
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| Named Person: | William S Burroughs; William S Burroughs; William S Burroughs |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jennie Skerl; Robin Lydenberg |
| ISBN: | 0809315858 9780809315857 0809315866 9780809315864 |
| OCLC Number: | 20935146 |
| Description: | 274 p. : port. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 -- 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jennie Skerl and Robin Lydenberg. |
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