The Aesthetics Of Anthony Burgess: Fire Of Words
by Jim Clarke /
2017 / English / PDF
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The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's
fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way
of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of
the twentieth century's most innovative authors. This book
explores Burgess's dazzlingly diverse range of novels through the
one key theme which links them all – the artistic process itself.
The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's
fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way
of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of
the twentieth century's most innovative authors. This book
explores Burgess's dazzlingly diverse range of novels through the
one key theme which links them all – the artistic process itself.
Borrowing from Nietzsche's aesthetic dichotomy of Apollo and
Dionysus, the book uncovers the protracted evolution of Burgess's
fiction and offers a unifying theory which links his early
postcolonial fiction chronologically, via his modernist
experiments like
Borrowing from Nietzsche's aesthetic dichotomy of Apollo and
Dionysus, the book uncovers the protracted evolution of Burgess's
fiction and offers a unifying theory which links his early
postcolonial fiction chronologically, via his modernist
experiments likeA Clockwork
Orange
A Clockwork
Orange and
andNothing Like The Sun
Nothing Like The Sun, to his late
classics
, to his late
classicsMozart and the Wolfgang
Mozart and the Wolfgang and
andA
Dead Man in Deptford
A
Dead Man in Deptford.
.
This volume clarifies Burgess's seminal role as both late
modernist and early postmodernist, and lucidly unveils the legacy
of England's most mercurial novelist.
This volume clarifies Burgess's seminal role as both late
modernist and early postmodernist, and lucidly unveils the legacy
of England's most mercurial novelist.
