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...Frederick Whiting Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 u \ Monstrosity on Trial: The Case of Naked Lunch Frederick Whiting The court trials and other actions against Naked Lunch provide a moral benchmark. We cannot fail to recognize, in retrospect, the speed...

...Christopher Breu Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 The Novel Enfleshed: Naked Lunch and the Literature of Materiality The Novel Enfleshed: Naked Lunch and the Literature of Materiality Christopher Breu The end of postmodernism? Is postmodernism still a viable analytical...

... incarceration, Burroughs appealed to the reader’s preconditioned response to abnormality. The public outcry against not only Burroughs’s most “obscene” work, Naked Lunch, but against Burroughs himself was due in large part to his extratextual claims triggering a mode of reading already appealing...

...). 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...

... shown remarkable staying power. A half-century after the publication of Naked Lunch (1959), many critics would agree with Timothy S. Murphy that Burroughs’s literary career is based upon a resistance to “the totalitarian system of modern capitalism and its ideological tool, the state...

...” with Kerouac and Ginsberg, Harris observes that it is now “only in the more general cultural and biopic narratives, which continue to inform the way both are popularly understood, that Burroughs and the Beats still belong inseparably together, as in films based on their lives and works such as Naked Lunch...

... Chatterley’s Lover (1959), Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer (1961), and William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1962). As a result of Grove’s success in court, it became a premiere publishing house of philosophical and not-so-philosophical pornography, coming out with landmark editions of the Marquis de Sade...

...) This decision undoubtedly influenced the Supreme Court of Mas­ sachusetts, which was considering the disposition of an obscenity con­ viction for William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch. Citing the three-part standard articulated in Memoirs, the court conceded that inasmuch as the record...

... right. I went in to lunch. (239) Another series of its suggests the importance of what Jake is encounter­ ing—a summary of his feminization at the hands of modern woman. But what has happened that Jake can so casually end this momentous reflec­ tion by going to lunch? Whence this state...

... unleashes a flurry of French signifiers: Anthony and Gloria are “the noisiest and most con­ spicuous members of the noisiest and most conspicuous party at the Boul’Mich, or the Club Ramée, or at other resorts much less particular about the hilarity of their clientèle” (232). Lunch is taken...

... sitting next to Alfred Hitchcock in a car during the direc- tor’s cameo appearance in Saboteur; that F. Scott Fitzgerald had lunch at the MGM studio commissary with Daisy and Violet Hilton, the Siamese Twins in Freaks; and that Nathanael West submitted an ultimately rejected Guggenheim grant...

... to Jake Barnes, “We’re going trout- fishing. We’re going trout-fishing in the Irati River, and we’re going to get tight now at lunch on the wine of the country, and then take a swell bus ride” (SAR 102). Not only Hemingway aficionados but students of American fiction and the short story can now...

... Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch, which are valuable histories but which I will have to pass over here. The conclusions Glass derives from “the end of obscenity” are as important to this chapter as the detailed histories. In a provocative subsection titled “Toward a Vulgar Modernism,” for example...

... was signed by the Germans at Versailles in late May). Then Jake has lunch with Cohn at a German restaurant, Wetzel’s; they quarrel and afterward walk up the street to the Café de la Paix for what turns out to be an inconclusive peace settlement (46-47). That evening, after being...

...(oader) Just then they rang the bell for lunch And served up—Fried Hyenas; And Columbo said “Will you take tail? Or just a bit of p(enis (McIntire 19) McIntire argues, convincingly, that these largely (at first glance) unim- pressive efforts reveal unexplored...

... stopped for lunch at noon, as he did here, sitting on a log like the one he now sat on, a log with no bark (238). He was also virtually surrounded by logs, which must have recalled his various trips to the Indian camp, the bark-peelers’ camp, and the Chippewas he had known there, including...

... of “telegrams and anger” (82) but also for the ways in which it is a game of power, exclusion, and affiliation. Even Margaret is made to realize the latter, as when she apologizes to Mrs. Wilcox for having seemed to forget the older woman’s presence at a lunch party where she was busy “zig­ zagging...

... enables Epstein to highlight Baraka’s role in O ’Hara’s “Personal Poem” (1959), in which Baraka joins O ’Hara for lunch, and the related essay “Personism” (1959), which Baraka published in his magazine Yugen (it is, by the way, the one essay reprinted in both editions of O ’Hara’s...

... 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...

... as mere conflicts between bloodthirsty savages and placing the conflicts within a larger, worldwide orbit of violence. How does one read the transposition of the Bosnian family onto the grieving US parents? In Macalister’s fiction, lunch in the narrator’s family home becomes a scene of suffering...