Robin Lydenberg's Word Cultures (1987)

Urbana and Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press (book, critical essays, 1st), 1987.
9.375" x 6.25" x 8.75", 208 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket.

Robin Lydenberg's Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction, published by University of Illinois Press in 1987. First printing hardcover.

As noted on the dust-jacket, "Lydenberg examines his four major early works to show how Burroughs uses the mosaic style of Naked Lunch and the more radical techniques of the cut-up trilogy... to attack conventional structures of metaphor and morality"; "narratives previously dismissed as un-readable do in fact offer new ways of reading and thinking, and a new kind of linguistic pleasure for which we must be trained."

This copy was formerly in the collection of Lon Stacks (Detroit, MI.), and was acquired through his estate.

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