College Literature, Volume 27, Number 1 (Special Issue: Teaching Beat Literature), Winter 2000

Contains Douglas G. Baldwin's essay "'Word Begets Image and Image Is Virus': Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs", pp. 63-83.

Also contains "Intersection Points: Teaching William Burroughs's Naked Lunch", by Timothy S. Murphy, pp. 84-102.

Published in West Chester, PA.by West Chester University in Winter of 2000.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Shoaf IV.244
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20000100CLIT.27.1

Contents: 

• Jennie Skerl: "Introduction: The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual in Academe" (essay)
• Ann Douglas: "'Telepathic Shock and Meaning Excitement': Kerouac's Poetics of Intimacy" (essay)
• Ronna C. Johnson: "'You're putting me on': Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence" (essay)
• Nancy McCampbell Grace: "A White Man in Love: A Study of Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa" (essay)
• Douglas G. Baldwin: "'Word Begets Image and Image Is Virus': Undermining Language and Film in the Works of William S. Burroughs" (essay)
• Timothy S. Murphy: "Intersection Points: Teaching William Burroughs's Naked Lunch" (essay)
• Terence Diggory: "Allen Ginsberg's Urban Pastoral" (essay)
• Robert Kern: "Mountains and Rivers Are Us: Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature" (essay)
• Maria Damon: "Triangulated Desires and Tactical Silences in the Beat Hipscape: Bob Kaufman and Others" (essay)
• A. Robert Lee: "Chicanismo's Beat Outrider? The Texts and Contexts of Oscar Zeta Acosta" (essay)
• Anthony Waine and Jonathan Woolley: "'Blissful, Torn, Intoxicated': Brinkmann, Fauser, Wondratschek and the Beats" (essay)
• Jaap van der Bent: "'O fellow travelers I write you a poem in Amsterdam': Allen Ginsberg, Simon Vinkenoog, and the Dutch Beat Connection" (essay)
• Oliver Harris: "Beating the Academy" (essay)
• William Lawlor: "A Compact Guide to Sources for Teaching the Beats" (essay)
• Cornel Bonca: "The Women Who Stayed Home From the Orgy" (reviews of Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution, ed. Brenda Knight; A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation, ed Richard Peabody)
• Regina Weinreich: "The Beat Generation os Now About Everything" (reviews of The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters 1944-1960, by Steven Watson; Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965, ed. Lisa Phillips; Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the 50s, and Film, by David Sterritt)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kostas Myrsiades
• Guest Editor: Jennie Skerl
• Associate Editors: Linda S. Myrsiades, John S. Ward
• Editorial Assistant: Andi Hubbard
• Book Review Editor: Joseph Urgo, Bryant College
• Art Director: Peggy Schiff Hill
• Advisory Editors: Peter Baker, Michael Brooks, Robert Fletcher, Alan France, Patrick McHugh, Alan Nadel, Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey, Lalita Pandit, Mrie A. Plasse, Geetha Ramanathan, Maureen T. Reddy, Lydia Schultz, Carol Schloss, Cheryl B. Torsney, Michael Zeitlin
• Graduate Assistant: Richard Terpstra
• Intern: Amy McDermott
• Cover Art: Gordon Ball