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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"William S. Burroughs"”.
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Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
… discussed. 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 …
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"I was in a position to dismantle it": Industrial Appropriations of William S. Burroughs
… of the most 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, …
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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, …
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Nothing Short of Complete Liberation: The Burroughsian Ideal of Space as Curatorial Strategy in Audial Art
… analysis of 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” …
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American gadgets: cybernetics, consumer electronics, and twentieth-century us fiction
… that allow authors such as Thomas Pynchon, William S. Burroughs, Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Richard Powers to explore the complexities of humankind’s responses to technological and digital innovation
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Aesthetic representation and political economy in the beat narrative: Structures of feeling in the post-World War II generation
… conception of history," as well as Raymond William's idea of a "structure of feeling." Using the novels published by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs in the 1950s (specifically, <em>On the Road</em>, <em>Dharma Bums</em>, and <em>Naked Lunch</em>), the intent is to gain some …
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's Language
… ""Beat"" writers, principally Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, who provided models of spontaneity and collage, and who negotiated identity in ways that Basquiat could not have found exclusively in his visual sources. Throughout this dissertation I argue that Basquiat's works are …
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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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Night-glory: cut-up literature, anarchism, and the question of the subject
… and processual experiments in Gertrude Stein's, William S. Burroughs', Kathy Acker's, and Kenji Siratori's cut-up works appeal to principles of embodiment, affect, and affinity foundational for anarchist practices of direct action, horizontal organization, and voluntary cooperation. Counter to …
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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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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… Langston 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 …
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Cinematic Writing: Thinking Between The Viewer And The Screen
… cinematic techniques used by three writers: William S. Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. It establishes how cinema has impacted on and been used as a resource to alter and transform their writing practice. The central claim of my project is that the visual and text-based …
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La voz límite. Una aproximación estética a la vocalidad teratológica desde el arte sonoro
… creaciones artísticas firmadas por autores como William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Antonin Artaud, Alan Moore, Karlheinz Stockhausen o Alvin Lucier (en la primera sección de la obra), los conceptos antes presentados se aplican al análisis de dos seres teratológicos (y, …
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“Automatic obedience, synthetic schizophrenia, mass-produced to order. That is the Russian dream, and America is not far behind” : Fascism as a Reaction to a Crisis of Masculinity in William S. Burroughs’s Queer
Systems of control and resistance are central to William S. Burroughs’s writing. In his second novel, Queer, written in 1952 and published in 1985, Burroughs delves into the sexual politics of control. Previous critics have discussed issues connected to queerness and the novel’s Cold War commodity …