Shift linguals : cut-up narratives from William S. Burroughs to the present / Edward S. Robinson.

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Robinson, Edward S, 1975-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Postmodern studies ; 46.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789042033047
9042033045
1283123223
9781283123228
9786613123220
6613123226

Other title:

Cut-up narratives from William S. Burroughs to the present

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shift linguals.DDC classification:

809/.9113 23

LOC classification:

PN98.P67 R63 2011eb

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index.

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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.

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