The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by William Burroughs, Nova Express The Restored Text, The Ticket That Exploded The Restored Text and Dead Fingers Talk (four texts in one entry)
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University of Keele
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 716
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- This output comprises Harris' scholarly editions of William Burroughs' "Cut-up Trilogy" - Nova Express, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, and his Restored Edition of Dead Fingers Talk, an important early example of a mash-up or remix text.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Based on extensive archival discoveries and the close scrutiny of dozens of manuscripts and editions, the “Restored” texts correct, expand, and entirely reframe the experimental “cut-up” novels originally published in the 1960s and generally either misunderstood as messy monstrosities or misread as early works of Postmodernism. The editions demonstrate for the first time the complexity and rigour of Burroughs’ chance-based remix methods, as well as his texts’ enduring cultural and political relevance. With introductions and notes adding up to 100,000 words of new material, the Restored editions have been recognised as scholarly landmarks in taking seriously Burroughs’ most radical experiments.
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- Non-English
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