William S. Burroughs: cutting up the century

William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hawkins, Joan 1953- (HerausgeberIn), Wermer-Colan, Alex (HerausgeberIn), Cannon, Charles James 1800-1860 (MitwirkendeR), Brewer, Tony (MitwirkendeR), Palmer, Landon (MitwirkendeR)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington, Indiana, USA Indiana University Press [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing together newspapers, magazines, letters, book reviews, classical literature, audio recordings, photographs, and films, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, excerpts from his dream journals, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife, Joan
Beschreibung:xxii, 434 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780253041333
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