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William Burroughs in context / edited by Oliver Harris, Davis Schneiderman, Alex Wermer-Colan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997--Criticism and interpretation.
- Burroughs, William S.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "This definitive collection explores William Burroughs' work across literature, art, media, politics, and more. Ideal for scholars, students, and general readers, it captures the immense scope of Burroughs' radical vision and cultural influence, as well as his continued contemporary relevance"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword : What is the context for William S. Burroughs? / Jennie Skerl
- Introduction to the collection : New frontiers / Oliver Harris, Davis Schneiderman, and Alex Wermer-Colan
- The inscrutable Beat : Ginsberg, Kerouac, and the New York circle / Steven Belletto
- The exile : From the Americas to Europe via North Africa / Eva Kowalska
- The avant-gardist : From surrealism to situationism / David Banash
- The counterculture icon : From Beat to punk / Guy Stevenson
- The obscene queer : The legal legacy of Naked Lunch and the right not to read / Loren Glass
- The non-canonical writer : Categorically uncategorizable / Michael Sean Bolton
- The monster : "I'll by God show them how ugly the ugly American can be" / Oliver Harris
- El hombre invisible : Burroughs and the fedora / Barry Miles
- The anthropologist : Mayans, shamans, junkies / David Stephen Calonne
- The seer and the satirist : Cutting through the prophetic tradition / Farid Ghadami
- The macho queer : "A lifetime of defensive hostility" / Ian MacFadyen
- The libertarian : Between individual anarchism and alt-right endorsement / Florian Zappe
- The de-colonizer : "An all-out riot is like a tonic" / Alan Carmody
- The conspiracy theorist : Paranoia, the right, and LSD / Chris Fleming
- The collaborator : Intertextuality and authorship / Allen Hibbard
- The recycler : Permutating the past, resurrecting the future / Benoît Delaune
- The visionary : Yagé and its aesthetics / Marcus Boon
- The scissor man : Cutting up everything / Daria Baryshnikova
- The space-time traveler : Re-engineering the calendar / Tomasz Stompor
- The science fiction world builder : Burroughs' speculative cities and their legacy / Clémentine Hougue
- The revised Boy Scout : Youth, nostalgia, and memory / Thom Robinson
- The DJ : Cut-up machines, automation, sound / Benjamin J. Heal
- The screenwriter : Cut-up films, closet screenplays, and William Burroughs' vision for an alternative cinema / Alex Wermer-Colan
- The performer : The attention economy in comic routines and cinematic roles / Katharine Streip
- The horror writer : Through the ooze from Lovecraft to Burroughs / Fiona Paton
- The guerrilla warrior : Manifestos and provocations / Jimmy Fazzino
- The visual artist : From collages to shotgun paintings / Yuri Zupancic
- The muse : Burroughs and Laurie Anderson / Jeffrey L. Meikle
- The Burroughs singularity : Black hole, nova, supernova / Timothy S. Murphy
- The master addict : A career in drugs / Phil Baker
- The epidemiologist : Alt-medicine, paranoia, and the politics of contagion / Polina Mackay and James Mackay
- The parasite : Biology, cybernetics, soft machines / Leila Kucukalic
- The virologist : A biolinguistic reading of Burroughs / James Akira Ward
- The electronic revolutionary : Media war, fake news, and artificial intelligence / Davis Schneiderman
- The environmentalist : Burroughs and the Anthropocene / Steen Ledet Christiansen
- Postscript : Prophetic mutterings and battle instructions / Anne Waldman.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-55473-5
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