Naked Lunch @ 50

Naked Lunch @ 50 Author: Oliver C. G. Harris
Publisher: SIU Press

... Naked Lunch kurt HEMMER f Naked Lunch were published today , fifty years after its original publica- tion , and William S. Burroughs were still alive , rather than inciting calls for censorship over its lurid depictions of sex , it ...

Word Cultures

Word Cultures Author: Robin Lydenberg
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

... Naked LunchNaked Lunch is a blueprint , a How - To Book [ ... ] How - To extend levels of experience by opening the door at the end of a long hall .... Doors that only open in Silence . . . . " Naked Lunch The unbridgeable gap ...

Make Love, Not War

Make Love, Not War Author: David Allyn
Publisher: Routledge

... Naked Lunch was published in 1962 , hardly anyone was surprised that Massa- chusetts police immediately arrested booksellers who sold it . And when Grove Press , the book's publisher , appealed an obscenity conviction in 1966 , few ...

New York Magazine

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... Naked Lunch, concluding wistfully that it was just too fragmented and scurrilous for the screen. They changed their minds when the project was finally taken on by David Cronenberg, the brainy, cold-blooded Canadian who shares ...

The Beat Generation and Counterculture

The Beat Generation and Counterculture Author: Raj Chandarlapaty
Publisher: Peter Lang

... Naked Lunch and the Internationalization of Countercultural Narrative " You see less on junk , less of your physical surroundings than without it . However , the whole ... Naked Lunch and the Internationalization of Countercultural Narrative.

The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature

The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature Author: Steven R. Serafin
Publisher: A&C Black

... Naked Lunch , published in Paris in 1959. When Grove Press brought out an American edition entitled Naked Lunch in 1962 , the work was prosecuted as obscene by the state of Massachusetts . By the time the Massachusetts Supreme Court ...

The Question of Literature

The Question of Literature Author: Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell
Publisher: Manchester University Press

... Naked Lunch.62 Yet in The Job , in answer to the question [ w ] hat does the discovery of apo- morphine represent in your life ' , he says ' [ t ] he turning point between life and death . I would never have been cured without it . Naked ...

Encyclopedia of the Novel

Encyclopedia of the Novel Author: Paul Schellinger
Publisher: Routledge

Paul Schellinger. versial literary works ( just four years prior to publishing Naked Lunch Girodias had also released Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita ) . After Grove Press obtained the US publishing rights for Naked Lunch from Girodias , it ...

Postmodern Apocalypse

Postmodern Apocalypse Author: Richard Dellamora
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

... Naked Lunch was released during the course of a continuing crisis generated by outraged conservative and Christian responses to the funding of a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition by the National Endowment for the Arts.58 Cronenberg ...

Burroughs Unbound

Burroughs Unbound Author: S. E. Gontarski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

... Naked Lunch, material is taken out of sequence but the restructuring is hard to spot because of the episodic nature of the originals. In contrast, the “Dead Fingers Talk” chapter comprises rapid crosscutting between material from Naked ...