Gerald Alva Miller Jr. Understanding William S. Burroughs 9781643360812

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Автор: Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
Название: Understanding William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9781643360812
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: с 1900 г.

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

Литературные спутники (справочники), книжные обзоры и руководства

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ISBN-10: 1643360817
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 156
Вес: 0.23 кг.
Дата издания: 30.07.2020
Серия: Understanding contemporary american literature
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 19
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: Literary companions, book reviews & guides,Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers,Literary studies: from c 1900 -,Popular culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Through critical readings Gerald Alva Miller, Jr., examines the life of William S. Burroughs and the evolution of his various radical styles not just in writing but also in audio, film, and painting. Although Burroughs remains tied to the Beat Generation, his works prove more revolutionary. Miller argues that Burroughs, more than any other author, ushered in the era of both postmodern fiction and poststructural philosophy. Through this study Miller situates Burroughs within the larger countercultural movements that began in the 1950s, when his novels became influential because of their examination of various control systems (from sex and drugs to global or even intergalactic conspiracies).Understanding William S. Burroughs begins by considering his early, straightforward narratives. Despite being more stylistically conventional, they broke new ground with their depictions of junkies, gay people, and others marginalized by society. The publication of Naked Lunch shattered all literary paradigms in terms of form and content. Naked Lunch and the cut-up novels, recordings, films, and art that followed constitute one of the twentieth centurys most sustained and methodical aesthetic experiments, placing Burroughs alongside Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon in terms of both innovation and influence. Burroughs eventually turned his attention toward imagining methods of using the control machinery against itself. Often considered his masterpiece, the Red Night Trilogy of the 1980s ranges across time and space, and life and death, in its quest to discover the ultimate form of freedom. His antiestablishment stance and virulent attacks on various types of oppression have caused Burroughs to remain a highly influential figure to each new generation of authors, artists, musicians, and philosophers. The hippies, punks, and cyberpunks were all heavily indebted to the man whom many people called el hombre invisible, and his works prove more relevant than ever in the twenty-first century.
Дополнительное описание: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers|Literary companions, book reviews and guides|Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000|Popular culture

Understanding William S. Burroughs, Gerald Alva Miller Jr.