Mosaic of Juxtaposition: William S. Burroughs' Narrative Revolution (2014)

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Editions Rodopi (book, essays, 1st), 2014.
9.25" x 6.125" x 0.5", 202 pages, softcover. IBSN 978-90-420-3848-6.

Micheal Sean Bolton's Mosaic of Juxtaposition: William S. Burroughs' Narrative Revolution, as published by Edition Rodopi (Amsterdam) in 2014.

A book on Burroughs' narrative qualities, as viewed from a poststructuralist perspective. As noted on the back cover: 

"This book addresses the unique characteristics of Burroughs' narrative style in order to discover strategies for engaging and navigating these demanding novels. Bolton advises, 'Burroughs' subversive themes and randmonizing techniques do not amount to unmitigated attacks on conventions, as many critics suggest, but constitute part of a careful strategy for effecting transformations in his readers.' Utilizing various poststructuralist theories, as well as recent theories in electronic literature and posthumanism, Mosaic of Juxtaposition examines the various strategies that Burroughs employs to challenge assumptions about textual interpretation and to redefine the relationship between reader and text."

Contents: 

• Acknowledgements
• I. On the Association Line: A Narrative Revolution
• Addressing Critical Assumptions
• Making a Language of Independence
• Writing Against Ideology
• Reassessing Narrative as Subject
• Reading by Association
• II. Word Virus, Pharmakon, and Burroughs' Method
• Parasite and Virus
• Pharmakon and Pharmakeus
• Method and Mosaic
• III. Get Off the Point: Deconstructing Context
• Time and History
• Place and Culture
• IV. The Mark Inside: Decentralizing the Narrative Subjectivity
• Dislocating the Narrative
• Splitting the Self
• Reassessing Narrative Subjectivity
• V. Cross the Wounded Galaxies: Implications and Influences of Burroughs' Narrative Experiments
• The Hypertext and the Cybertext
• The Cyborg and the Posthuman
• The Virtual and the Viral
• The Ghost in the Soft Machine
• Conclusion: A Singularity
• Select Bibliography
• Index