| Contents |
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 |
| Abstract |
"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. |
