| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Postmodern studies ; 46
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Postmodern studies ; 46.
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| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sheffield, 2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Before Burroughs: The Prehistory of the Cut-Ups; 1 The Origin and Theory of the Cut-Ups; 2 Early Successors: Pélieu, Giorno, Weissner; Inter-Section. The Mutations of Burroughs: Revising the Cut-Up Technique; 3 Kathy Acker: Plagiarism and Adaptation -- From Cut-Up to Cut-and-Paste; 4 Stewart Home: Pulp, Parody, Repetition and the Cut-Up Renaissance; 5 Further Mutations: The Cut-Ups in the New Millennium; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
Shift Linguals traces a history of the cut-up method, the experimental writing practice discovered by Brion Gysin and made famous by Beat author William S. Burroughs. From the groundbreaking works of Dada and Surrealism that paved the way for Burroughs' breakthrough, through the countercultural explosion of the 1960s, Shift Linguals explores the evolution of the cut-ups within the theoretical frameworks of postmodernism and the avant-garde to arrive at the present and the digital age. Some 50 years on from the first 'discovery' of the cut-ups in 1959, it is only now that we are truly able to ob. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. |
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Experimental fiction -- History and criticism.
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Experimental fiction. |
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Cut-up narratives from William S. Burroughs to the present |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Robinson, Edward S., 1975- Shift linguals. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011 9789042033030 (OCoLC)714734837 |
| ISBN |
9789042033047 (electronic book) |
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9042033045 (electronic book) |
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1283123223 |
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9781283123228 |
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9789042033030 |
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9042033037 |
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