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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 493–529.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Alex Wermer-Colan Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 The Autobiographical Ploy in William S. Burroughs’s Early Work
Implicating the Confessor: The Autobiographical
Ploy in William S. Burroughs’s Early Work
Alex Wermer-Colan
A final glossary, therefore, cannot be made...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Eric Strand Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Eric Strand
The Last Frontier: Burroughs’s Early Work
and International Tourism
Eric Strand
William S. Burroughs’s image as a subversive avant-garde writer,
uncompromisingly contesting all forms of social control, has...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 199–223.
Published: 01 June 2011
... to be theorized as interpenetrating parts of a
continuous cycle, one to which the writers of the late-capitalist literature
of materiality were responding.
In positing this category, I am thinking of such writers as William
Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Kathy Acker, Samuel
Delany, J...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2006
... with which we assimilate into the mainstream of Ameri
can life that which was once unspeakable.
—Michael Barry Goodman (1)
A final glossary, therefore, cannot be made of words whose in
tentions are fugitive.
—William Lee [William S. Burroughs], final line...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 499–506.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Thom Robinson The opposition between what “Beat” means to a mass audience (for example, On the Road ) and how the Beats can best be understood critically (for example, Doctor Sax ) is also touched on in Oliver Harris’s chapter on William Burroughs’s uneasy position within both Beat literature...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 171–192.
Published: 01 June 2000
... by the police and found
incriminating, a scene that is explicit in Burroughs’s fiction (see Junky 84—
86; Naked Lunch 209). The result was epistolary self-censorship and an anxi
ety that tainted the privacy and liberty invested in letter writing in the first
place. In this context, literary self...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 424–432.
Published: 01 September 2015
...). To do so, Breu turns to a corpus of twentieth-century literature that he describes as “the late-capitalist literature of materiality”—William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959), Thomas Pynchon’s V . (1963), J. G. Ballard’s Crash (1973), Dodie Bellamy’s The Letters of Mina Harker (1998), and Leslie...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Minh. Meanwhile, Grove made its mark on domestic policy, championing freedom of expression in a series of obscenity court cases defending its publication of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1959), Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1961), and William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1962...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 140–147.
Published: 01 March 2011
... 57.1 Spring 2011 140
Review
Baraka’s poem “Das Kapital”) and develops in successive stages through
works by Frank O’Hara, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, William Gib-
son, and nineties rap (52). Burroughs provides a crucial pivot in Clune’s
lineage, his aleatoric compositions...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2024) 70 (1): 55–84.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Ancestry 1860–1940 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Buckley Jerome Hamilton . 1966 . The Triumph of Time: A Study of the Victorian Concepts of Time, History, Progress, and Decadence . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Burroughs Edgar Rice . 1921 . Tarzan...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 243–272.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... — Sullivan’s Travels Everything belongs to me because I am poor. —Jack Kerouac, Visions of Cody In June 1950, at William S. Burroughs’s invitation, Jack Kerouac traveled to Mexico City, where he, Neal Cassady, and Frank Jeffries reveled on the dollar’s strength like newly rich men. They caroused...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 170–196.
Published: 01 June 2016
... with the conventional travelogue nature of On the Road , White suggested he “sketch in the streets like a painter but with words” ( Kerouac 1996 , 356). Chad King is based on Denverite Hal Chase, who became friends with Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and other Beat luminaries while attending Columbia. Roland Major...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 520–527.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to the 1960s, when the press
achieved its greatest success and notoriety as a publisher of avant-garde
and obscene literature. Its authors, to name just a few, included Samuel
Beckett, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, William Burroughs, Kenzaburō Ōe,
Harold Pinter, and Frantz Fanon. Focusing on these two...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 475–498.
Published: 01 December 2017
... relation to the New American Poetry, a context he revisits with reference to William Burroughs’s collaborations with Brion Gysin. 13 Filreis is right that such a reassessment is necessary, both to our understanding of Moore and of the New American Poetry; where I differ is in the reading of Moore’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (3): 233–247.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Pynchon and William Burroughs more or less
equal space alongside such fifties stalwarts as Bellow, Malamud, and Ralph
Ellison (although Tanner includes a speculative conclusion citing William
Gaddis, Donald Barthelme, and Richard Brautigan as examples o f “how
American fiction has moved...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (4): 433–435.
Published: 01 December 2004
... with
“estrangement and death” (30). Although Adams’s discussion of adventure
stories is problematic since he relies on the Tarzan stories written by an
American, Edgar Rice Burroughs, to demonstrate the prevalence of Hel
lenism in popular British fiction, his discussion of E. M. Forster’s gradual
rejection...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of Occidental to Tar
zana College is significant, because the history of the actual community
ofTarzana bizarrely encapsulates the California dream, as Kevin Starr dis
cusses in Material Dreams. Tarzana began as a 550-acre private ranch built
by Edgar Rice Burroughs when he moved to Los Angeles...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 447–471.
Published: 01 December 2011
... on the red planet in his novel Auf zwei
Planeten (On Two Planets, 1897), and Alexander Bogdanov reimagined it
as a socialist utopia in Red Star (1908). Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined
a partly medieval and partly Native American-inspired society on Mars
that he described in no fewer than eleven volumes...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (3): 245–270.
Published: 01 September 2023
... expresses the close of. 6 William Burroughs (1994: 115), supported by an allowance from his family, called Ginsberg’s pattern of employment in the early fifties “Al’s normality program” or “that let’s-take-our-place-in-a-normal-society dive.” 7 For recent discussions of Ginsberg’s relationship...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 333–340.
Published: 01 June 2012
.... (7)
Seitler makes such temporal complications clear, among other places, in
her discussion of the Tarzan series, which “continuously reminds us of
what threatens the modernity of the future, of what came before M-A-
N (according to Burroughs’s pop-evolutionary concerns), and of where
we may...
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