Burroughs Unbound

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.

Auteur

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).

Contenu

Acknowledgments

• *Contributors

Burroughs Unbound: An Atrophied Introduction
S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA

Part 1: Theory

1. Weaponized Aesthetics and Dystopian Modernism: Cut-ups, Playbacks, Pick-ups and the "Limits of Control" from Burroughs to Deleuze
   S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA

2. Pay It All Back: Writing Paranoia-Paranoid Writing
   Nathan Moore, School of Law, Birkbeck College, London, UK

3. The Tension of Possibility: Reading Closure in Ah Pook through the Sum of the Multiframe
   Ash Connell-Gonzalez, University of Oregon, USA

4. Fluidity and Fixity in William S. Burroughs' Writing
   Allen Hibbard, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Part 2: Texts

5. Making Dead Fingers Talk
   Oliver Harris, Keele University, UK

6. Whale Drek: The Lost Footnotes of the Olympia Press *Naked Lunch
   Jed Birmingham, Contributing Editor, Reality Studio

7. "There are no typographical errors in this edition": Burroughs's Textual Infection of the New York School
   Nick Sturm, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

8. "I spent months in the morgue": William S. Burroughs' appropriation of TIME magazine
   Tomasz Stompor, Göttingen State and University Library*, Germany*

9. Digitizing the Word Hoard: Remediating Counter-Cultural Archives after the American Century
   Alex Wermer-Colan, Temple University (Digital Scholarship Center), USA

10. Mess, Taste, and Gastric Criticism: Digesting Naked Lunch
    Rona Cran, University of Birmingham, UK

Part 3: Performance

11. Performance in the Work of William S. Burroughs
    John M. Bennett, The Ohio State University, USA

12. Burroughs, Bowie, and the Reshaping of the Counterculture
    Barry Faulk, Florida State University, USA

13. The Alternative Press is News
    Blake Stricklin, University of Houston, Victoria, USA

Appendix A: Evergreen on the Air: Barney Rosset on Censorship and Publishing Naked Lunch [Transcript of 1962, WNYC radio broadcast], Barney Rosset, Publisher, Grove Press, 1951-1986

Appendix B: "Lectures on the Virus," selections from Burroughs's lectures at CCNY, 1974

Appendix C: Burroughs Manifest, the "lost, found and lost again" Burroughs Archive at Florida State University, 12 September 1980 purchase

Appendix D: Supplemental Bucher purchases, 12 December, 1990

Appendix E: Burroughs and Bucher, letters and notes 1978-9, 1984

Appendix F: "A 30-year wait. A 16-mile journey." The story of the "lost" Burroughs Archive at Florida State University

Index