Tony Tanner's "City of Words" (1971)

New York City: Harper & Row (book, essays), 1971.
8.5" x 6" x 1.5", 463 pages, hardcover with dust jacket.

City of Words: American Fiction 1950–1970 by Tony Tanner, a collection of his literary essays as published in hardcover by Harper & Row (New York City) in 1971. Jacket design by Craig Dodd. 

This contains Tanner's essay on William S. Burroughs "Rub Out the Word", at pages 109-140.

Not in Maynard & Miles.
Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender.

Contents: 

• Prefatory Note
• Introduction
• 1. "On Lexical Playfields (Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges)"
• 2. "The Music of Invisibility (Ralph Ellison)"
• 3. "A Mode of Motion (Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller)"
• 4. "Frames without Pictures (James Purdy)"
• 5. "Rub Out the Word (William S. Burroughs)"
• 6. "Everything Running Down"
• 7. "Caries and Cabals (Thomas Pynchon)"
• 8. "The Uncertain Messenger (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
• 9. "Necessary Landscapes and Luminous Deteriorations (John Hawkes)"
• 10. "What Is the Case? (John Barth)"
• 11. "Interior Spaciousness — Car, Bell Jar, Tunnel and House (Walker Percy, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, William Gass)"
• 12. "A Compromised Environment (John Updike)"
• 13. "Fictionalized Recall — or 'The Settling of Scores! The Pursuit of Dreams!' (Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Frank Conroy)"
• 14. "A New Life (Bernard Malamud)"
• 15. "On the Parapet (Norman Mailer)"
• 16. "Edge City (Ken Kesey)"
• Conclusion:
• "Recognitions (William Gaddis)"
• "Fragments and Fantasies (Donald Bathelme, Richard Brautigan)"
• "The Wide Wings of the Language"
• Appendices
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index