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Burroughs, William Seward - 1914–97, American novelist, b. St. Louis, grad. Harvard, 1936. He was an elder member of the beat generation. Junkie (1953), originally published under the pseudonym William Lee, and Queer (written 1953, pub. 1985) are autobiographical accounts of his drug addiction, homosexual experiences, and the accidental killing of his wife. His best-known novel, Naked

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William S. Burroughs at the Front: Critical Reception, 1959-1989 » Read Now
by Robin Lydenberg. 282 pgs.

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...Carbondale and Edwardsville William S. Burroughs At the Front Critical...Cataloging-in-Publication Data William S. Burroughs at the front: critical...
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William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination » Read Now
by Oliver Harris. 287 pgs.

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The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation (Chap. 4 "The Gnostic Vision of William S. Burroughs") » Read Now
by Gregory Stephenson. 218 pgs.

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...4 The Gnostic Vision of William S. Burroughs 59 5 "The...reprint The Gnostic Vision of William S. Burroughs," 4 Spring 1984 :40-49...Allen Ginsberg and William S...
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Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide (includes "William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch") » Read Now
by M. Keith Booker. 412 pgs.

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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and...
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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and summarizes several important utopian works to provide a background. The rest of the book summarizes and analyzes numerous dystopian novels, plays, and films.
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Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction (includes "William S. Burroughs, the Nova Mob, and the Silence Virus") » Read Now
by Scott Bukatman. 410 pgs.

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...complete surrender..." -- William S. Burroughs TERMINAL IDENTITY INTRODUCTION...Ballards predecessor and ally, William S. Burroughs, summarized his task as an...the...
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Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film (includes information on William S. Burroughs in "Beat Writing as Liminoid Performance") » Read Now
by David Sterritt. 260 pgs.

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An interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with mainstream & experimental film & the interactions of all of these with American society & the culture of the 1950s.
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (includes information on William S. Burroughs in "A Gospel of Emancipation") » Read Now
by Roger Kimball. 320 pgs.

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Roger Kimball shows how the 'cultural revolution' of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and in our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms...
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Roger Kimball shows how the 'cultural revolution' of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and in our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms of attitudes toward self and country, sex and drugs, and manners and morality. Believing that this dramatic change "cannot be understood apart from the seductive personalities who articulated its goals", he intersperses his argument with incisive portraits of the life and thought of Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Susan Sontag, Eldridge Cleaver and other 'cultural revolutionaries' who made their mark. For all that has been written about the counterculture, until now there has not been a chronicle of how this revolutionary movement succeeded and how its ideas helped provoke today's 'culture wars'. This book fills this gap with a compelling and well-informed narrative that is sure to provoke discussion and debate.
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Historical Dictionary of the 1960s » Read Now
by James S. Olson, Samuel Freeman. 554 pgs.

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Few eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair than the 1960s. When J.F.K. became president in 1960, the U.S. was the hope of the world. Ten years later American power abroad seemed wasted in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home...
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Few eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair than the 1960s. When J.F.K. became president in 1960, the U.S. was the hope of the world. Ten years later American power abroad seemed wasted in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home wondered whether the U.S. was really the "land of the free and the home of the brave." This book takes an encyclopedic look at the decade--at the individuals who shaped the era, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the youth rebellion. It covers the political, military, social, cultural, religious, economic, and diplomatic topics that made the 1960s a unique decade in U.S. history.
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