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This 9 page paper discusses communication theory and the relationship it bears to the books "Cities of the Red Night" by William S. Burroughs and "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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communications. This paper discusses communications theory in relation to these authors. Discussion There appears to be no working definition of "communication theory" that is widely accepted, although common sense would
tell us that it deals with transmitting information from one person to another. Whether that information is written, broadcast, spoken, sung, emailed, or text messaged doesnt seem to matter; it
is all information and it is all being transferred. It might be best to just jump in and say that for purposes of this discussion, communication theory is a term
that describes the transfer of information from one person to another. When we come to applying this thinking to the novels Cities of the Red Night and Gilead, however, things
get muddy. Burroughs in particular is a difficult writer whose most famous novel, Naked Lunch, has been driving critics crazy for 40 years. A series of apparently random and disconnected
vignettes, it follows no logical progression as it details the anxiety-ridden and twisted life of a drug addict. Teeming with every kind of sexual encounter imaginable, and presenting scenes that
were so disgusting one reviewer likened reading them to licking an ashtray (Kane, 2006), it still is a seminal work of the 20th century in its deconstruction of the basic
structure of the novel. In Cities of the Red Night, Burroughs does something analogous, though not identical: he interweaves three different narratives set in three different times, and employing three
different narrative voices. The book is nothing short of a "science-fiction myth that explains all of human history as we know it and an alternative history that shows the power
of fantasy" (Skerl, 1985). The "cities" are imaginary, a "prehistoric civilization" that Burroughs portrays in a "science fiction mode that satirizes contemporary Western society" (Skerl, 1985). The cities are dystopic
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