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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...

... pictures of half-naked women; the ubiquity of the magazine and the notoriety of that particular genre of photograph hide her reference to Paterson I in plain sight.5 “A Geographic picture” The ubiquity of National Geographic in twentieth-century American class­ rooms, waiting rooms...

... 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...

... 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...

... and the healing waters and verses of “Sukee River” (78-80), Constab Ballads’ closing poem. The poem’s fifth stanza (of thirteen) figures the river as lover whose kisses heal his troubled heart: 63 Paul Peppis Kiss my naked breast In its black skin drest: Let your dainty...

... sightlines direct the viewer’s eyes to the boy’s buttocks” (54). He remarks on the manner in which the men “feast their eyes on the naked beauty of a prepubescent street performer, while a suggestively phallic snake rises from his arms.” On this basis, the artwork confirms Boone’s guiding thesis...

...) 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...

... corporeal metaphor. Desire in the mud: “Prior to the script” How It Is is a complexly structured, black-humored exploration of Beck­ ett’s aesthetics of need. The narrator is naked, crawling on his belly in the dark through a world of mud. The framing structure and ultimate source of narrative...

... In a letter to Bryher, Moore reprimands the generous young patron for publishing Poems without her knowledge, and borrows from Darwin a self-description: “in Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication, Darwin speaks of a variety of pigeon that is born naked without any down whatever. I...

..., on the other, to join a seemingly confessional nakedness with an Emersonian transparency, producing a complex staging. Her autobiographical poems evoke the “sense” she describes of feeling at once “alive in our own skin, and at the same time . . . completely insubstantial” (Conversations 167). Enacting...

... by a horror of the vacuum, the naked surface, the harmony of linear geometry, a style where the central axis, which is not always manifest or apparent (in Bernini’s Saint Teresa it is very difficult to determine a central axis), is surrounded by what one might call...

..., according to the narrator, is not necessarily more real than the “claustrophilia” of Victorian social behavior; it is instead more idealized, a “mythical world where naked beauty mattered more than naked truth” (144). Beauty and truth are thus separated in the narrator’s mind, as they were...

... The Naked and the Dead [1948Hutner adds names such as Irwin Shaw, Kay Boyle, Nelson 273 Alison Shonkwiler Algren, Sloan Wilson, Wallace Stegner, James Cain, Betty Smith, Charles Jackson, Chester Himes, and Eudora Welty. Hutner gives us novels that are surprisingly diverse, even...

..., so that she lay in the white sheet-lightning of her aura. An aura must be fastened like a butterfly, like angel wings to a naked, scraped spine. (56) Then there follows a pair of cryptic sentences: Flesh must be scraped off, we must eat what will make us live. The woman...

... the masculine), revisions of the Oedipus story, satirical expo­ sitions of feminist doctrine, and Wittig-like chanting of the names of fe­ male personages and divinities,10 Evelyn is raped, castrated, and surgically turned into a woman. Mother, the ruler of this realm, is naked, wears a false beard...