Research Catalog

Title

William S. Burroughs cutting up the century / edited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan ; contributing editors: Charles Cannon, Tony Brewer, and Landon Palmer.

Publication

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hawkins, Joan, 1953-
• Wermer-Colan, Alex

Description

xxii, 434 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

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 This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate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. William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays, interviews, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars, respected artists, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points--literary studies, media studies, popular culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, history, and geography. Ultimately, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours.

Subjects

• Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 > Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Cut-ups (Literary form)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Cutting Up the Century / Oliver Harris -- The Nova Convention : Celebrating the Burroughs of Downtown New York / Kristen Galvin -- Mutable Forms : The Proto-Ecology of William Burroughs' Early Cut-Ups / Chad Weidner.

Call Number

JFF 19-2502

ISBN

• 9780253041326
• 0253041325
• 9780253041333
• 0253041333

LCCN

2018023308

OCLC

1039429907

Title

William S. Burroughs cutting up the century / edited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan ; contributing editors: Charles Cannon, Tony Brewer, and Landon Palmer.

Publisher

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hawkins, Joan, 1953- editor.

Wermer-Colan, Alex, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: William S. Burroughs cutting up the century. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019 9780253041364 (DLC) 2018026007

Research Call Number

JFF 19-2502