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Lesson 1

Objective

Naked Lunch is a novel by American author and principle figure of the beat generation, William S. Burroughs. Naked Lunch was a controversial work upon its first publication in Paris, France, in 1959. Due to obscenity laws in the U.S., an American edition was not published until 1962. The novel follows a nonlinear plot and is related through a series of vignettes highlighting the lives of drug addicts and the counterculture of the 1950s. In this lesson, students will research William S. Burroughs and the Beat Generation, and will analyze and discuss Chapter 1, titled “And Start West.”

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Research Activity: Allow students time in class to conduct research on the author and his role within the beat generation. Who were the principle writers of the movement? What stylistic elements arose in the writing of the Beat writers? What was the critical and public response to Naked Lunch...

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