Timothy S. Murphy's "Wising Up the Marks (1997)






Berkeley, California, US: University of California Press (book, essays), 1997.
9.25" x 6.25" x 1", 276 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, ISBN 0-520-20950-8.

Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs, a book of essays by Timothy S. Murphy as published in hardcover [pictured] and softcover by University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, US) in 1997.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Lon Stacks (Detroit, Michigan, US), acquired from his estate.

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Contents: 
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted"
  • Chapter One: "Invisibility and Amodernism"
  • Chapter Two: "No Final Glossary: Fugitive Words in Junky and Queer"
  • Chapter Three: "'All Agents defect and all Resisters sell out': The Negative Dialectics of Naked Lunch"
  • Chapter Four: "'I Hassan i Sabbah rub out the word forever': The Dialectic of Treason and the Abolition of the Law in the Nova Trilogy"
  • Chapter Five: "The Wild Boys: Desire, Fantasy, and the Book of the Dead"
  • Chapter Six: "Quién es? Reconstruction of the Revolutionary Subject in Burroughs's Late Trilogy"
  • Conclusion: "Burroughs's Fin de siècle: Listen to My Last Words Everywhere"
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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