thesisThis study approaches William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch as a rhetorical act in which the disruption of conventional reading expectations functions as a strategic attack on American institutionalized conformity during the 1950's. As a rhetorical act, the novel dramatizes and demythologizes the sublimated modes of addiction which characterized American social, political, and cultural institution representative of its milieu. Contrary to the conventions of the novel, Naked Lunch is formally disruptive, thereby violating reader expectations established by the novel genre. These violations function rhetorically to influence the reader to assume a more responsive stance as interpreter of the novel. Ultimately, the novel aims at the examinat...
Since the 1970s, postmodern studies into William Burroughs, his cut-up narrative strategy, his views...
Since the 1970s, postmodern studies into William Burroughs, his cut-up narrative strategy, his views...
The aim of this article is to analyze W.S. Burroughs’s fi rst novel Junky from the angle of transgre...
William Burroughs is commonly known for his anti-government ramblings in Junkie and Naked Lunch. Ma...
William Burroughs is commonly known for his anti-government ramblings in Junkie and Naked Lunch. Ma...
William Burroughs is commonly known for his anti-government ramblings in Junkie and Naked Lunch. Ma...
Article adopts Jacques Lacan’s concept of the “mirror stage” to study the mechanisms of the way the ...
This thesis is a study of the white male anti-hero in post-World War II United States fiction. It is...
The study of film adaptations, particularly those coming from literature, has been growing at a rapi...
The new orientations set by the late 50s American writers have marked new features and peculiarities...
The new orientations set by the late 50s American writers have marked new features and peculiarities...
English senior honors thesisConcluding paragraph: "Twentieth century America was a period of rapid e...
© 2016 Dr. Joshua Daniel O'Connel ComynIn this dissertation I argue that the works of post-1945 Amer...
My concern in this thesis is to show that a reconstruction of the publishing history of the work of ...
Since the 1970s, postmodern studies into William Burroughs, his cut-up narrative strategy, his views...
Since the 1970s, postmodern studies into William Burroughs, his cut-up narrative strategy, his views...
Since the 1970s, postmodern studies into William Burroughs, his cut-up narrative strategy, his views...
The aim of this article is to analyze W.S. Burroughs’s fi rst novel Junky from the angle of transgre...
William Burroughs is commonly known for his anti-government ramblings in Junkie and Naked Lunch. Ma...
William Burroughs is commonly known for his anti-government ramblings in Junkie and Naked Lunch. Ma...
William Burroughs is commonly known for his anti-government ramblings in Junkie and Naked Lunch. Ma...
Article adopts Jacques Lacan’s concept of the “mirror stage” to study the mechanisms of the way the ...
This thesis is a study of the white male anti-hero in post-World War II United States fiction. It is...
The study of film adaptations, particularly those coming from literature, has been growing at a rapi...
The new orientations set by the late 50s American writers have marked new features and peculiarities...
The new orientations set by the late 50s American writers have marked new features and peculiarities...
English senior honors thesisConcluding paragraph: "Twentieth century America was a period of rapid e...
© 2016 Dr. Joshua Daniel O'Connel ComynIn this dissertation I argue that the works of post-1945 Amer...
My concern in this thesis is to show that a reconstruction of the publishing history of the work of ...
Since the 1970s, postmodern studies into William Burroughs, his cut-up narrative strategy, his views...
Since the 1970s, postmodern studies into William Burroughs, his cut-up narrative strategy, his views...
Since the 1970s, postmodern studies into William Burroughs, his cut-up narrative strategy, his views...
The aim of this article is to analyze W.S. Burroughs’s fi rst novel Junky from the angle of transgre...