DOCSLIB.ORG

The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs, Oneworld Classics

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs, Oneworld Classics The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs, OneWorld Classics DOWNLOAD http://bit.ly/1cZpSav http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ticket_That_Exploded In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’s grand cut-up trilogy, which began with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express, reaches its climax as Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. DOWNLOAD http://wp.me/21li8 http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/The-Ticket-That-Exploded http://bit.ly/1nILXgM Conversations with William S. Burroughs , Allen Hibbard, 1999, Biography & Autobiography, 234 pages. Although a rather shy, private man, William Burroughs gave a good many interviews during his lifetime, some in prominent publications, others in obscure forums. The interviews. The Soft Machine , William S. Burroughs, Feb 24, 2011, Fiction, 184 pages. In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a. Gentleman Junkie , Harlan Ellison, Mar 5, 2012, Fiction, 231 pages. The original 50 cent paperback edition of this book now goes for $100 in rare book auctions. Why? Because it contains 25 of the best, hardest-to-find stories of the writer the. The Place of Dead Roads A Novel, William S. Burroughs, May 4, 2001, Fiction, 336 pages. A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight. Word Virus The William S. Burroughs Reader, William Burroughs, James Grauerholz, Ira Silverberg, William S. Burroughs, Dec 1, 2007, Fiction, 576 pages. With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including. The Adding Machine , William S. Burroughs, Nov 4, 2013, Literary Collections, 224 pages. "Sheer pleasure. Wonderfully entertaining."—Chicago Sun-Times Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius. Exterminator! , William S Burroughs, Aug 2, 2012, Fiction, 176 pages. A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man’s face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of. Interzone , William S Burroughs, Sep 27, 2012, Fiction, 224 pages. Interzone portrays the development of Burroughs's mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the. Queer , William S. Burroughs, 2010, Aliens, 150 pages. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs. Junky , William S. Burroughs, Oct 2, 2012, Fiction, 256 pages. Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his. Nova Express , William S. Burroughs, , Fiction, 174 pages. La Nebulosa del Granchio – osservata dagli astronomi cinesi nel 1054 – è il prodotto di una supernova o di una stella esplosa. Distante dalla Terra tremila anni luce, ha. Naakte lunch , William Burroughs, Oct 17, 2011, Fiction, . Naakte lunch verscheen in 1959 in Parijs bij Olympia Press (die ook Henry Miller publiceerden) onder de titel The Naked Lunch, waarbij het lidwoord werd toegevoegd door de. With William Burroughs , , Nov 15, 1996, Biography & Autobiography, 264 pages. Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned the bridge with logic and wrote the classic Naked Lunch, has a court recorder in Victor Bockris. Bockris has collected. Last Words The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, 2001, Biography & Autobiography, 273 pages. Documenting the final months of this literary and countercultural icon, these extremely personal reflections confront U.S. drug policy, the state of the human race, and a host. The examination of weighing equipment , Malcolm W. Jensen, Ralph Weir Smith, 1965, Scales (Weighing instruments), 279 pagesHot Mess , Rowan Mcallister, 2013, Fiction, 200 pages. Too much partying and self-inflicted trouble have left Cameron Lacey s life a complete mess. But he s determined to change, and he ll do anything to keep a roof over his head Scandal Takes a Holiday , Lindsey Davis, Sep 3, 2007, Fiction, 352 pages. Ancient Rome's organized crime syndicates have never been more dangerous or more conning than in this latest adventure featuring First Century sleuth Marcus Didius FalcoWitches, Midwives, and Nurses A History of Women Healers (Contemporary Classics)., Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English, 2010, Health & Fitness, 108 pages. A bestseller for decades, this contemporary classic gets a substantial new introduction by the authors Manual on control of infection in surgical patients , American College of Surgeons. Committee on Control of Surgical Infections, Aug 1, 1976, Medical, 280 pages http://ebookbrowsee.net/bv/The-Ticket-That-Exploded Nobel parade selections by winners of the award for literature, Helen M. McDonnell, 1975, Literature, Modern, 440 pages. Selections by winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature from 1901 to the present. Includes three acceptance speeches, biographies of the authors, and other study aidsTime Out Barcelona 15th edition , Time Out Guides Ltd, May 24, 2013, Travel, 336 pages. Which? Recommended Provider: Time Out Guides kicks off 2014 by being rated top guidebook brand by Which? Survey, for level of detail, photography, quality of maps, ease of The Old Man and the Sea [ Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 ] [ Writer Wins Nobel Prize in Literature AWARD 1954 ], Ernest Hemingway, 1989, Fiction, 109 pages. Traditional Chinese edition of The Old Man and The Sea edited for young adults. The story is told with text and graphics and accompanied with Zhuying (phonetic annotation). A http://bit.ly/1WNeqv1 Too Many Fairies A Celtic Tale, , 2010, Juvenile Fiction, 32 pages. An old woman is at her wit’s end when a troop of fairies won’t stop cleaning her houseThe boarding-house , William Trevor, 1965, Fiction, 287 pages. Satirisk roman om sære gamle mennesker i et pensionat Subjected to Science Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War, Susan E. Lederer, Oct 6, 1997, History, 216 pages. Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of early biomedical research with human subjects. Lederer offers detailed accounts of experiments conducted on both healthy This report examines in detail the basic elements of the European Employment strategy the objectives of which were endorsed at the Lisbon Conference 2000. It sets out how each. Issues of language curriculum development underlied the planning and implementation of language teaching programmes. These papers argue for the process to be made explicit and. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ticket_That_Exploded http://panuhuzi.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/london-the-city-churches.pdf Slipknot: All Hope Is Gone , Joel McIver, Mar 7, 2012, Music, 232 pages. With no fewer than nine members and a unique stage image based on grotesque masks and boiler suits, Slipknot retained a mystique that was unprecedented in the metal worldGenetic and environmental influences on behaviour a symposium held by the Eugenics Society in September 1967, Eugenics Society (London, England), 1968, Science, 217 pages Men confront pornography , Michael S. Kimmel, 1991, Social Science, 340 pages The ideas of Marx, Freire, and Gramsci are explored as guides to social progress. Mr. Tootle shares a fun time at tea with Miss Bea and a bunch of noodles. http://u.to/O7kSFE Cause and Effect , Patricia Ackert, Linda Lee, 2005, Language Arts & Disciplines, 292 pages. Through wonderful readings and carefully designed activities, this best-selling series helps students develop reading skills and systematically increase their active vocabularyAdventuring in coral seas , , 1936 Odd One Out , Monica McInerney, 2006, Books alive 2006, 151 pages. BOOKS ALIVE 2006. Sylvie needed to take a big step into the unknown. so her brother gave her a push download This book is designed to help readers obtain a thorough understanding of the basic principles of electric circuits. (Midwest). Provides a detailed overview of predators on the internet, from hackers to stalkers, and offers advice on how to avoid the traps. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/?store=book&keyword=The+Ticket+That+Exploded Literary Relations Kinship and the Canon 1660-1830, Jane Spencer, Oct 27, 2005, Literary Criticism, 268 pages. Looking at both real-life relationships between writers and the metaphorical use of kinship terms, this text explores issues in gender theory, as well as recent studies ofStay-at- Home Dads An Essential Guide to Creating a Balanced Family Life, Libby Gill, 2001, Family & Relationships, 197 pages. A step-by-step guide for fathers who want to transform their lives into a child-centered lifestyle explains how to balance career and family, make the most out of one income The Encyclopedia of Money , Larry Allen, 2009, Business & Economics, 520 pages. Presents more than three hundred alphabetically-arranged entries covering all aspects of money and financeGreenhouse management for horticultural crop production , S. Prasad (professor of horticulture.), U. Kumar, 1999, Gardening, 592 pages http://is.gd/8V09gk Vocabulary Cartoons, SAT Word Power: Learn Hundreds of SAT Words Fast with Easy Memory Techniques , Sam Burchers, Bryan Burchers, Sep 1, 2007, Juvenile Nonfiction, 347 pages. Collects cartoons and rhyming phrases designed to improve vocabularySecond Thyme Around , Katie Fforde, Nov 5, 2004, Fiction, 384 pages. For years, things have run quite smoothly for Perdita and her organic gardening business. So what if her hair needs a complete overhaul, her sweater has more holes than Swiss OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide , Chris Seibold, Jul 25, 2012, Computers, 272 pages. Get the concise information you need to start using OS X Mountain Lion, the latest version of the Mac operating system.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Master in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact
    MASTER IN ADVANCED ENGLISH STUDIES: LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT Departamento de Filología Inglesa 2015-2016 Final Master Thesis And the Virus Spread: Infection as a Bond Between William Burroughs’s and David Cronenberg’s Dystopian Works Pedro Alberto Martinez Martínez VALLADOLID 2016 The work presented in this MA thesis is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, original and my own work, except as acknowledged in the text. The work in this thesis has not been submitted, either in whole or in part, for a degree at this or any other university. This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact to Universidad de Valladolid by Pedro Alberto Martínez Martínez July 2016 Student’s signature__________________________________________ Approved Dr. Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Stracham Supervisor’s signature______________________________________ ABSTRACT This dissertation deals with infection in the American Beat Generation author William S. Burroughsand the Canadian film-maker David Cronenberg. I have chosen Burroughs’s Cut- Up trilogy (formed by The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded and Nova Express) and Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Shivers and Rabid as my main frames of reference to carry out this study. The main purpose of this comparative analysis (which is not exempt of similarities and differences in the way these two authors tackle the same subject matter) is to explore a research gap in order to shed some light to the means by which the two authors perceive infection and parasitism as ever-present elements in theirworks that provides them with philosophical ideas that go well beyond the genres which they seem to be ascribed to on the surface.
    [Show full text]
  • Snedeker: "Closing Time"
    Closing Time George Snedeker In his novels, William Burroughs constructs a complex mythological structure. The tropes of evolution and religion are central to novels like Nova Express and The Western Lands. In this essay, I will argue that these novels are political/philosophical representations of contemporary society. Burroughs moves concrete political conflicts to the plane of metatheoretical reflections by means of the construction of grand mythological frameworks. He rarely ever addresses politics directly. Instead, he offers movie-like narratives that the reader is forced to reconnect to everyday reality. Both the cut-ups and his fragmented narratives try to force the reader into the work of reconstructing the existential field of action. There are no blueprints or programs for action to guide our struggles in his novels. Burroughs' radicalism was a radicalism of the imagination. He tried to revive the capacity to dream and imagine alternative worlds, not to get stuck in this highly corrupt universe of thought. How does one think his/her way out of a prisonhouse of language and the symbolic order of domination? This is why there is so much emphasis on individual and collective struggles for personal liberty in his novels. I will argue that Burroughs understood the quest for freedom in both quotidian and global terms. In books like The Wild Boys, Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads there is a clear attempt to formulate a collective struggle against the cosmic and social forces of evil. In The Wild Boys, this struggle takes the form of the politics of the imaginary.
    [Show full text]
  • Listening As Agon in the Society of Control You Can Find out More About the Nervous 1
    But why return to Nietzsche for an analysis Listening as Agon in of listening-especially listening today in the age of big data and surveillance capitalism? the Society of Control I do so for two reasons: first, to remind us that our current situation is not as novel as we sometimes take it to be; and, second, to make a broader point about what listening is and what a politics of listening might be. Let me take up the second of these points. Nietzsche's polemically broad conception of Christoph Cox interpretation contests the special status of human beings and of human interpretation, Before we move too quickly to discuss asserting that all entities (human, animal, "the politics of listening", I would like to vegetable, mineral, mechanical, etc) are offer some philosophical caveats aimed at engaged in this battle of interpretations. reconfiguring the ontological field in which This is relevant to our consideration of both we understand "listening" and "the political". listening and politics. In the announcement The question of listening seems to me to be for this symposium, the organisers quote fundamentally a question of interpretation, a passage by sound artist Lawrence Abu in the expanded sense in which Nietzsche Hamdan, who writes: "Listening is not a uses the term. For Nietzsche, "to interpret" natural process inherent to our perception is to be confronted with a flow (of words, of the world but rather [is] constructed by sounds, images, information, whatever) and the conditions of the spaces and times to filter it in some way according to some set that engulf us."3 Now, I am very fond of Abu of interests or constraints.
    [Show full text]
  • Everything Lost the Latin American Notebook of William S
    Everything Lost The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs Edited by Geoffrey D. Smith, John M. Bennett, and Oliver Harris In late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William S. Burroughs began a notebook 2007 240 pp. of final reflections on his four years in Latin America. His first novel, Junkie, had just been published and he would soon $59.95 cloth 978-0-842-080-2 be back in New York to meet Allen Ginsberg and together complete the manuscripts of what became The Yage Letters and Queer. Yet this notebook, the sole survivor from that period, reveals Burroughs not as a writer on the verge of success, but as a man staring down personal catastrophe and visions of looming cultural disaster. Losses that will not let go of him haunt Burroughs throughout the notebook: "Bits of it keep floating back to me like memories of a daytime nightmare." However, out of these dark reflections we see emerge vivid fragments of Burroughs's fiction and, even more tellingly, unique, primary evidence for the remarkable ways in which his early manuscripts evolved. Assembled in facsimile and transcribed by Geoffrey D. Smith, John M. Bennett, and Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, the notebook forces us to change the way we see both Burroughs and his writing at a turning point in his literary biography. William S. Burroughs is recognized as one of the most innovative, politically trenchant, and influential artists of the twentieth century.
    [Show full text]
  • William S. Burroughs Reading Wilhelm Reich
    humanities Article Genius and Genitality: William S. Burroughs Reading Wilhelm Reich Thomas Antonic Department of German Studies (Institut für Germanistik), University of Vienna, A1010 Vienna, Austria; [email protected] Received: 15 January 2019; Accepted: 16 May 2019; Published: 21 May 2019 Abstract: This article explores the impact of Wilhelm Reich’s theories and writings on the works and thinking of William S. Burroughs. Reich’s significance for Burroughs’ fiction is beyond doubt, as the appearance of Reich’s discoveries and inventions, such as orgones and orgone accumulators, in Burroughs’ major works demonstrates. Yet to date, no attempt has been made in academia to make all those references to Reich in Burroughs’ complete œuvre visible. In order to make the thinking of the Austrian-American psychoanalyst and scientist comprehensible for readers not familiar with Reich, the first section will provide a brief biographical outline. In the subsequent sections, the article will describe how Burroughs and other Beat writers discovered Reich, how and to what extent Burroughs incorporated Reich in his texts throughout his career and what opinions Burroughs expressed about Reich in interviews and letters. For the first time, with a summary as undertaken in this article and by documenting most of the references to Reich in Burroughs’ work, the importance of the former to the latter is revealed in a compact form. Keywords: William S. Burroughs; Wilhelm Reich; beat generation; orgone 1. Introduction At some point, readers familiar with Beat literature have certainly come across the name of Wilhelm Reich or references to one of his discoveries and inventions in books by or about the Beat Generation.
    [Show full text]
  • UC Santa Barbara Journal of Transnational American Studies
    UC Santa Barbara Journal of Transnational American Studies Title Interzone’s a Riot: William S. Burroughs and Writing the Moroccan Revolution Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3x68h6kb Journal Journal of Transnational American Studies, 8(1) Author Suver, Stacey Andrew Publication Date 2017 DOI 10.5070/T881028666 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 4.0 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Interzone’s a Riot: William S. Burroughs and Writing the Moroccan Revolution STACEY ANDREW SUVER A survey of Burroughs Live, a collection of interviews with William S. Burroughs spanning the years between the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959 and his death forty years later, reveals that interviewers made little of his life in Morocco beyond classifying it as Just another curious fact in an already scandalous biography of a homosexual and sometime heroin addict who felt at odds with his own government.1 Indeed, despite living in Tangier’s International Zone from 1954 through its dissolution following Moroccan independence two years later, Burroughs was far more likely to be asked his opinion about United States politics than his views on Moroccan politics.2 This proved true even in the 1960s, when he still spent much of his time in Tangier. Critics such as John Tytell and Mary McCarthy have long argued that Burroughs’s work frames a reaction against the restrictive US political climate of the time: the cold war, suburbanization, McCarthyism, and American exceptionalism.3 However, anticolonial violence in Tangier had, I will contend, a profoundly significant impact on Burroughs’s writing.
    [Show full text]
  • “I Was in a Position to Dismantle It”: Industrial Music
    “I WAS IN A POSITION TO DISMANTLE IT”: INDUSTRIAL MUSIC APPROPRIATIONS OF WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS by Joseph Vecchio, A.A., B.A. A thesis submitted to the Graduate Council of Texas State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music with a major in Music May 2014 Committee Members: Kevin Mooney, Chair Ludim Pedroza Charles Ditto COPYRIGHT by Joseph Vecchio 2014 FAIR USE AND AUTHOR’S PERMISSION STATEMENT Fair Use This work is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, section 107). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgment. Use of this material for financial gain without the author’s express written permission is not allowed. Duplication Permission As the copyright holder of this work I, Joseph Vecchio, authorize duplication of this work, in whole or in part, for educational or scholarly purposes only. DEDICATION To Ruth, with all of my love. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Kevin Mooney for his unwavering support for this project, enthusiasm about the material, and wonderful editorial remarks. Thank you to Dr. Ludim Pedroza for being a true inspiration for a multidisciplinary approach to musicology. Thank you to Dr. Charles Ditto for his membership on my committee and eagerness to see this project carried to fruition. Ruth Vecchio, your knowledge of industrial music is encyclopedic and has been an extremely valuable tool in aiding the completion of this project, and your help with editing has been invaluable.
    [Show full text]
  • The Rise and Fall and Rise of William S. Burroughs
    The Rise and Fall and Rise of William S. Burroughs Edward S. Robinson University of Sheffield Introduction As so-called “cult” authors go, William Burroughs is perhaps one of the best known of the twentieth century, and is also one of the most influential. For the past few years, I have been working toward a theory of Burroughs’ mutational influence based on the way Burroughs and his works have influenced subsequent authors and infiltrated popular culture in ways which are not always apparent. But what I want to consider here is the way in which Burroughs’ career, during his long and near- legendary life, ebbed and flowed in line with, or on occasions against, the tide of numerous literary fads and fashions, before ultimately transcending fashion and acquiring a place in the modern canon. Finally, I will be looking at the ways in which recent years have seen Burroughs, in effect, being (indirectly) responsible for spawning a number of subsequent literary fads, fashions and short-lived movements. The Rise of William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch Although published far earlier, with the autobiographical Junkie under the name William Lee in 1953,1 Burroughs first came to prominence in 1959 with the publication of Naked Lunch. Rejected by countless publishers before finally being published by the Olympia Press in Paris, the American publication was further delayed after both printers and binders refused to handle the text, its eventual release occurring in 1962. It also provoked a record-breaking 13-week series of correspondence in the Times Literary Supplement in the UK – again, before it was even available here.2 And so the novel, which has subsequently come to be regarded as a twentieth century classic, gained the author celebrity and notoriety in equal measure.
    [Show full text]
  • Narrative Immunities: the Logic of Infection and Defense in American Speculative Fiction
    Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 1-9-2018 11:30 AM Narrative Immunities: The Logic of Infection and Defense in American Speculative Fiction Riley R. McDonald The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Schuster, Joshua The University of Western Ontario Joint Supervisor Carmichael, Thomas The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in English A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy © Riley R. McDonald 2018 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the American Literature Commons Recommended Citation McDonald, Riley R., "Narrative Immunities: The Logic of Infection and Defense in American Speculative Fiction" (2018). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 5174. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/5174 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Abstract In this project I analyze the roles that notions of viruses and immunities and their figurations play within the narrative discourse of speculative fiction. Focusing on a series of texts from twentieth- and twenty-first century American fiction, I seek to examine the ways in which the dialectical confrontation between infection and immunity is explored, reified, or challenged on a narrative level. The terms “virus” and “immunity,” so intrinsic to life sciences, have come into use to describe specific micro-organisms and biological processes only within the last 150 years. Yet these terms possess a significantly longer history in political, legalistic, and philosophical discourses.
    [Show full text]
  • William S. Burroughs's Concept of Language As a Virus in the Context
    Tom 8/2018, ss. 67-74 ISSN 2353-1266 e-ISSN 2449-7983 DOI: 10.19251/sej/2018.8(6) www.sej.pwszplock.pl Andrzej Dorobek Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Płocku William S. Burroughs’s Concept of Language as a Virus in the Context of American Beat and Postmodern Literature WILLIAM S. BUrrOUGHS I JEGO KONCEPCJA „JęZYKA JAKO WIRUSA” W KONTEKś CIE LITERATURY AMERYKAń SKIEJ OKRESU BEATNIKOWSKIEGO I POSTMODERNISTYCZNEGO Abstract Abstrakt In this essay, we shall attempt to W niniejszym eseju spróbujemy highlight W. S. Burroughs’s concept of przedstawić odmienność sformułowanej language being a virus from outer space as przez Williama S. Burroughsa koncepcji „ję- remarkably different from the pertinent views zyka jako wirusa” z kosmosu od poglądów of any other Beat writer. If Kerouac saw na język jego przyjaciół z kręgu beatników. language as an efficient medium of expressing Kerouac postrzegał owo medium jako środek the immediacy and unpredictability of ekspresji spontaniczności i nieprzewidywal- experience, while Ginsberg used it as just as ności doświadczenia. Ginsberg traktował efficient instrument of voicing sociopolitical je jako instrument artykułowania protestu protest or Buddhist truths (following in the socjopolitycznego albo głównych prawd footsteps of Romantic transcendentalists doktryny buddyjskiej (idąc poniekąd w śla- or Whitman), Burroughs saw it rather as dy transcendentalistów amerykańskich albo an enigmatic, alien force. The latter could Whitmana). Burroughs widział natomiast effectively disturb human understanding w języku tajemniczą, z gruntu obcą siłę, and communication, or even be used as która może zakłócić nasze pojmowanie świa- a means of mental/social political oppression ta czy komunikację między ludźmi – a nawet and manipulation on the global scale.
    [Show full text]
  • Can You See a Virus? the Queer Cold War of William Burroughs
    Journal of American Studies, (), , –. Printed in the United Kingdom # Cambridge University Press Can You See a Virus? The Queer Cold War of William Burroughs OLIVER HARRIS I He has fertilized an A to Z of postwar creativity, quite literally from Kathy Acker to Frank Zappa; he has acted as godfather for literary countercultures from the Beats to the Cyberpunks; he has haunted our media zones as an icon of iconoclasm – and William Burroughs has remained a critical curse. Leaving aside what Burroughs’ academic marginality tells us – about Burroughs or academia – the main reason he has hexed his critics is also the key to the proliferation of his image and its power of mimetic magic: those he does not repel, Burroughs fascinates. This is the basis to his distinct iconicity, infectious now across four decades. Self-styled as El Hombre Invisible, Burroughs fully inhabits Maurice Blanchot’s construction of fascination as ‘‘the absence one sees because it is blinding’’: ‘‘Whoever is fascinated doesn’t properly speaking, see what he sees. Rather, it touches him in an immediate proximity; it seizes and ceaselessly draws him close, even though it leaves him absolutely at a " distance.’’ Unable or unwilling, Burroughs critics have done little with such knowledge other than to pass it on. Robin Lydenberg, author of the ground-breaking study Word Cultures (), could go back twenty years to quote Joan Didion praising Burroughs for ‘‘a voice so direct and # original and versatile as to disarm close scrutiny of what it is saying’’; so too, Robert Sobieszek in his artwork catalogue Ports of Entry (), could go back twenty to cite Philippe Mikriammos’ formula, ‘‘vox Oliver Harris is a Lecturer in the Department of American Studies, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire STBG.
    [Show full text]
  • Arabic Music and Burroughs's the Ticket That Exploded
    CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 Purdue University Press ©Purdue University Volume 18 (2016) Issue 5 Article 10 Arabic Music and Burroughs's The Ticket That Exploded David M. Holzer Independent Scholar Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb Part of the American Studies Commons, and the Comparative Literature Commons Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact: <[email protected]> Recommended Citation Holzer, David M. "Arabic Music and Burroughs's The Ticket That Exploded." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 18.5 (2016): <https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2922> This text has been double-blind peer reviewed by 2+1 experts in the field. The above text, published by Purdue University Press ©Purdue University, has been downloaded 112 times as of 11/ 07/19.
    [Show full text]