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The Green Ghost : William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind /
"So many biographical works exist on the Beat Generation, which are of course important, but scholars tend to neglect the most fascinating aspects of their literary texts. "The Green Ghost" seeks to steer the study of Burroughs and the beats into a new direction entirely by viewing th...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Burning Bones: The Limits of Material Culture and the Toxic Human in Naked Lunch
- 3. Mutable Forms: The Proto-ecology of Early Cut-ups from Minutes to Go and The Yage Letters
- 4. A Land of Grass without Mirrors: The Dada Ecopoetics of Moving Images in William Burroughs' Nova Express and Vera Chytilova's Sedmikrasky (Daisies)
- 5. The Retroactive Pastoral: Comic Dark Ecology, Deep Green Resistance, and the Romantic Plastic Indian in the Red Night Trilogy
- 6. Terrestrial Creatures: Problematizing the Animal and Empathizing the Human in The Cat Inside
- 7. A Blackness Too Pure: The Elegy of Ecophagy in Ghost of Chance
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.