Frammenti di massificazione: le neoavanguardie anglo-germanofone, il cut-up di Burroughs e la pop art negli anni Sessanta e Settanta analyses the influence of William Seward Burroughs’ cut-up method on British and German-language neo-avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s from a comparative point of view, with particular attention to the literary context of the Federal Republic of Germany. In four chapters devoted to a profile of this American intellectual and artist, the origins, stylistic features and reception of the cut-up method, the author investigates the reasons for the success of this process, rediscovered by Burroughs and aiming at a reconstruction of text fragments to build up new textual entities. The last chapter is an overview of the most interesting of the uses of the cut-up method in artistic environments other than literary writing, documenting the transformation of a rebellious technique into a new form of expression, i.e. pop art.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
Frammenti di massificazione: le neoavanguardie anglo-germanofone, il cut-up di Burroughs e la pop art negli anni Sessanta e Settanta
Authors
Gabriele Bacherini
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2020
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-131-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-131-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-132-7
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
Series E-ISSN
2420-8361