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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Burroughs"”.
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Writing William Burroughs, performing the archive
Between 1958 and 1972, author William S. Burroughs undertook a series of radical experiments with alternative compositional modes based on the aleatory form of the Cut-up. Burroughs sold the entirety of his work from the period, assembled into an archive, to a collector in 1972. This study uses …
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The life and thought of John Burroughs
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
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A Difference in Rhythm: John Burroughs as Rhythmanalyst
<p>Nature writer John Burroughs wrote about the rhythms of life in nature, people, and places, sharing his experiences of his surroundings for readers to learn from, get inspired by, or escape through. In this literature review, using Henri Lefebvre’s <em>Rhythmanalysis</em>, in which rhythm is the …
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Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
… Chapter One traces the development of William S. Burroughs's apocalyptic sensibility through readings of his correspondence with Allen Ginsberg and the novel The Naked Lunch (1959); the latter's apocalyptic title referring to the "frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork". …
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"I was in a position to dismantle it": Industrial Appropriations of William S. Burroughs
… pervasive influences is the writer William S. Burroughs, specifically his famous cut-up method. Burroughs has often detailed his pedagogy of the cut-up as applied to the written word and sound recordings. While most sources on industrial music do acknowledge Burroughs’ influence, they do not …
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Happiness Is a By-Product of Function: William Burroughs and the American Pragmatist Tradition
… examines the techniques and themes of William Burroughs by placing him in the American Pragmatist tradition. Chapter One presents a pragmatic critical approach to literature based on Richard Rorty and John Dewey, focusing on the primacy of narration over argumentation, redescription and …
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Subterranean Prose : The Thematic Similarity in the Novels of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Kenneth Patchen
… writers, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, and Kenneth Patchen. Findings. The restrictive literary and cultural climate of the time encouraged a specific mode of expression and conformity. These restrictions drove many authors underground. These four authors, notably, developed …
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Specializing in the wholly impossible: A rhetorical analysis of phronesis and kairos in the writings of Nannie Helen Burroughs
… founder and civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961). "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible" signifies the complexities and contradictions inherent in being black and female in America during the first decades of the twentieth century. Burroughs's motto of specializing in …
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God's School on the Hill: Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Training School for Women and Girls, 1909-1961
… second theme looks at the central role played by Burroughs, affording the opportunity to analyze an African American woman as educator, school founder and builder of an important educational institution for African American women. A third theme examines the history of a private secondary school …
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Beating the Dead Horse: Deconstructing the Junk Genius of Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs challenges each reader of Naked Lunch to make meaning of its convoluted pages. This project explores the two crucial keys to fuller understanding of his groundbreaking literary work: Logic and Ethics. In "Beating the Dead Horse: Deconstructing the Junk Genius of Naked Lunch," I …
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Nothing Short of Complete Liberation: The Burroughsian Ideal of Space as Curatorial Strategy in Audial Art
… the theories and tape experiments of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) to explore curatorial problems occurring within sound-related gallery displays of contemporary art. The study presents a Burroughsian methodology of curatorial practice engaging in “games with space and time” (Mottram 1977) in …
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African American Women Roles In The Baptist Church: Equality Within the National Baptist Convention, USA
… Mary Cook Parrish, Sarah Layten, and Nannie Burroughs. Historically, men have had dominant leadership roles in the black Baptist Church, most obvious in the development of the National Baptist Convention in the early twentieth century. Although women were present and active in the work of the …
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Integrating natural coping and survival strategies of African American women into social work practice: lessons learned from the works of Nannie Helen Burruoghs
… - as reflected through the works of Nannie Helen Burroughs- that can be integrated into current social work practice. This research is important because is describes, explores and analyzes culturally relevant helping traditions, among African American women that have historically promoted their …
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Dinâmica de estruturas reticuladas sob cargas móveis pelo método das matrizes de transferência
… of application. The program was developed for Burroughs 6700 computer of the Eletronics Computational Center of UFRJ.
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and August Wilson, I explore how literature across a number of genres and modes extended formal techniques in response to the advent of the phonograph, tape, and LPs. I contend that the development of sound recording technology not only …
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Análise dinâmica de vigas de pontes pelo método dos elementos finitos - aplicação a vigas Gerber
… and shear deformation. A FORTRAN program for the Burroughs B6700 computer is developed. Some example of existing highway and railway bridges are studied. The results are compared with known analytical and numerical solutions and the efficiency of the program is analysed.
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Análise de métodos de hidrógrafa unitária
… in Fortran Language. The machine used was a Burroughs 6700 pertaining to the Nucleo de Computação Eletrônica da UFRJ. Applications were made with data obtained from stations situated in the hydrographic basin of Rio Acari in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Furthermore, conparisons were made among the …
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Straddling the Line
… memoir writing of Maya Angelou, Augusten Burroughs, and Dave Eggers. The concept of reader’s “belief” as they relate to a given creative non-fiction piece and the reality of perspective as a means to position and understand this type of writing is also explored. The reminder of the project …
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Análise dinâmica linear por superposição modal de cascas finas arbitrárias pelo Método dos Elementos Finitos
… The program was written in FORTRAN IV for the BURROUGHS B-6700 computer. Finally, some numerical examples are presented.
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