STUDENT ZONE (BenOrtiz.com/classes)

Above: Cover to a 1968 edition of Naked Lunch.

Focus your summary and close reading on the section of your choice from our Naked Lunch excerpts (e.g. "Hassan's Rumpus Room," "the rube," etc.).

To make sense of the text in your response, consider the following ideas we've covered in class:

modernism
literariness
"language made strange"
American conformity/Puritanism
The Outlaw/MisFit
historicism
author biography/confession

Remember also that each of our recent authors (O'Connor, Ellison, and Plath) presents a vision of modernity — is Burroughs doing the same thing or making a radical departure?

Posted by Benjamin at June 21, 2006 04:09 PM