From Naked Lunch to Anti-Oedipus: Investigating the Intellectual History of the Development of Counterculture
| Název práce v češtině: | Mezi Nahým Obědem a Anti-Oidipem: Studium intelektuální historie vývoje kontrakultury |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | From Naked Lunch to Anti-Oedipus: Investigating the Intellectual History of the Development of Counterculture |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2019/2020 |
| Typ práce: | diplomová práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | Louis Armand, Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd. |
| Datum přihlášení: | 11.12.2019 |
| Datum zadání: | 11.12.2019 |
| Schválení administrátorem: | zatím neschvalováno |
| Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: | 19.12.2019 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 09.09.2021 00:00 |
| Odevzdaná/archivovaná: | archivovaná |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| In my MA thesis, I will explore the intellectual history of counterculture as it evolved between two seminal works, those of William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (1959) and Anti-Oedipus (1972), the first volume of Deleuze and Guattari’s Capitalism and Schizophrenia. In my thesis I will investigate how counterculture(s) evolved, starting with the Beat movement and continuing into the various artistic scenes of the 1960’s and 1970’s, particularly in the UK and the USA. I will approach the study as a history of ideas, examining the paradigmatic change that ultimately culminates in the publication of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Counterculture and the Underground form a cultural ‘other’ that manifests the collective unconscious, opposing authoritarianism and control. This attitude towards control can be traced to Burroughs’ work, be it in his fiction or non-fiction, which ultimately collapse into each other. As a result, schizophrenia becomes a valid point of examination. For Burroughs, control is fundamentally antagonistic towards sensuality, as it seeks to control the creation of propositions, something that sensuality actively undermines. The term ‘schizophrenia’ in my thesis will not be understood as a clinical entity but rather as ‘pure process’ in the Deleuzian sense of the word. The very idea of the underground and counterculture then deconstructs the method of historicization, which then requires a critical reformulation. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| Bolton, M. S. Mosaic of Juxtaposition: William S. Burroughs‘ Narrative Revolution. Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi, 2014 Burroughs, W. S. Naked Lunch. Reprint. London, Harper Perennial, 1959 Burroughs, W. S. The Soft Machine. Reprint. London, Fourth Estate, 1961 Burroughs, W. S. The Ticket That Exploded. Reprint. London, Fourth Estate, 1962 Burroughs, W. S. Nova Express. Reprint. New York, Grove Press, 1964 Burroughs, W. S. The Job. London, Penguin, 2008 Deleuze, G., Guattari, F. Anti-Oedipus. Reprint. London, Continuum, 1972 Deleuze, G., Guattari, F. A Thousand Plateaus. Reprint. London, Continuum, 1980 Desmond, J., McDonagh, P. and O’Donohoe, S. “Counter-culture and consumer society.” Consumption Markets & Culture, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 241-279. Taylor and Francis Online.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10253866.2000.9670358 Elkoly, S. N. (Ed). The Philosophy of the Beats. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2012 Green, Jonathon. Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961-1971. London, Pimlico, 1988 Harris, O. William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois Univerzity Press, 2003 Nedoh, B., Zevnik, A. Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis. Edingburg, University of Edinburgh Press. 2017 Roszak, T. The Making of a Counter Culture. London, University of California Press, 1969 Schneiderman, D., Walsh, P. (Eds.). Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization. London, Pluto Press, 2004 |