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William S. Burroughs, City College of New York Lecture, February 27, 1974 and March 1, 1974

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Resource type	Sound
Creator	Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Description	Side A: volume level low
Contributor	Seaton, Peter
Subject	Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--The Snows of Kilimanjaro Last words--Literature Authorship--Technique McMurtry, Larry -- The Last Picture Show Dialogue analysis Dialogue in literature Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 Characters in literature Dying declarations--Literature City University of New York.—City College—Lectures Dialogism (Literary analysis) Korzybski, Alfred, 1879-1950--Science and sanity; an introduction to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics Literature--Study and teaching Ludwig, Emil, 1881-1948--Napoleon Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 Authorship--Study and teaching McMurtry, Larry -- Criticism and interpretation Schultz, Dutch, 1900 or 1901-1935 Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--The Killers
Rights statement	Copyright Not Evaluated
Language	eng
Date created	February 27, 1974? March 1, 1974?
Last modified	March 20, 2024
Identifier	SPEC_RARE_CMS_87_audiofile_03
Summary	In 1974, William S. Burroughs taught a course on creative writing at City College of New York (CCNY). Side A: In this lecture, dated February 27, 1974 and March 1, 1974, Burroughs discusses the course's theme of authorship. He uses the dying declaration of American mobster, Dutch Schultz, as the literary example for this lecture, attempting to trace the literary sources and references (if any) in Schultz's last words. He lectures on a variety of different topics such as methods of learning to write, the strengths and weaknesses of famous authors, a writing assignment, and significant analysis on several works by Ernest Hemingway.
Source Collection	William S. Burroughs Papers
Collection identifier	SPEC.RARE.CMS.0087
Repository	Ohio State University. Libraries. Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Alternative title	Tape E
File Format	text/xml image/jpeg audio/mpeg audio/x-wave
Access rights	Users may access the recordings on site in an Ohio State University Libraries’ reading room.
Related finding aid	https://library.osu.edu/collections/SPEC.RARE.CMS.0087/
Rights note	This item, made available for research and educational purposes, may be protected by copyright; the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.
Medium	Audio cassette
Source	Item digitized from Box 58, William S. Burroughs Papers (WSB97), Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, The Ohio State University Libraries
Permanent link	https://hdl.handle.net/1811/02b8c9a0-f1fa-4398-aded-471020dabfab
Provenance	According to James W. Grauerholz, executor of William S. Burroughs' estate, the audio was recorded and previously owned by Peter Seaton.
Time period (Topic)	1970s (1970-1979)
Genre	lectures sound recordings
Extent	00:52:04 [Side A]

Credit line: William S. Burroughs Papers, The Ohio State University, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library

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