William S. Burroughs: Thought Control, Aesthetic Weaponry, and Dystopian Modernism

Once the notoriety of his reputation is set aside, critics and scholars have generally agreed that William S. Burroughs is one of the most innovative experimental writers and visual artists of the twentieth century, yet few critics and scholars have examined the nature or measured the scope of that innovation in the variety of media in which he worked, literature, film, sound tape and live performance, and none has fully explored the symbiotic relationship between archive or "word hoard" an...