Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing by Gontarski, S. E.

Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501381096)

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Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing by Gontarski, S. E.

Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing

$39.95
Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing by Gontarski, S. E.

Burroughs Unbound: William S. Burroughs and the Performance of Writing

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship, Burroughs Unbound also directly engages with the growing fields of textual studies, archival research, and genetic criticism, asking crucial questions thereby about the nature of archives and their relationship to a writer's work.

These questions about the archive concern not only the literary medium. In the 1960s and 1970s Burroughs collaborated with filmmakers, sound technicians, and musicians, who helped re-contextualized his writings in other media. Burroughs Unbound examines these collaborations and explores how such multiple authorship complicates the authority of the archive as a final or complete repository of an author's work. It takes Burroughs seriously as a radical theorist and practitioner who critiqued drug laws, sexual practice, censorship, and what we today call a society of control. More broadly, his work continues to challenge our common assumptions about language, authorship, textual stability, and the archive in its broadest definition.

Author: S. E. Gontarski
ISBN-10: 1501381091
ISBN-13: 9781501381096
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2023
Pages: 450
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d
By S. E. Gontarski
By S. E. Gontarski
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S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. He is the author or editor of 29 books and, with Paul Ardoin and Laci Mattison, he is series editor of the Bloomsbury series, Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism. The serie editors were also volume editors for the initial books in that series: Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2013) and the follow-up, Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2014). Gontarski's recent books are: Beckett's "Happy Day" A Manuscript Study (2017) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Decadent Turn (Bloomsbury, 2018).

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