Cary Nelson's "The Incarnate Word" (1973)

Urbana, Illinois, US: University of Illinois Press (book, essays), 1973.
9.25" x 6" x 1", 285 pages, hardcover in dust-jacket, ISBN 0-252-00191-5.

The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space by Cary Nelson, as published in hardcover by the University of Illinois Press (Urbana, Illinois, US) in 1973.

This book of literary essays includes "The end of the body: radical space in Burroughs", pp. 208-229. This includes short excerpts from APO-33, Nova Express, Time, The Ticket That Exploded and other Burroughs works.

This is a rather early critical essay on Burroughs' work.

Not in Shoaf. Not in Schottlaender.

Contents:

• Preface
• One: Introduction
• Two: Pearl: the circle as figural space
• Three: Prospero's island: the visionary body of The Tempest
• Four: Christ's body and Satan's head: incarnate space in Paradise Regained
• Five: Form and claustrophobia: intestinal space in A Tale of a Tub
• Six: Blake's Jerusalem: a fourfold vision of the human body
• Seven: To fold the world into a body's house: perceptual space in The Prelude
• Eight: Suffused-encircling shapes of mind: inhabited space in Williams
• Nine: The end of the body: radical space in Burroughs
• Ten: Fields: the body as a text
• Bibliography