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Burgess, Anthony - bûrˈjĭs, 1917–93, English novelist, b. Manchester as John Anthony Burgess Wilson, grad. Manchester Univ., 1940. He taught school in England and in East Asia and pursued an early interest in music. His novels are marked by a surreal, darkly comic imagination. Burgess is acknowledged to have been one of the most imaginative and experimental English

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Anthony Burgess: The Artist as Novelist » Read Now
by Geoffrey Aggeler. 234 pgs.

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The Consolations of Ambiguity: An Essay on the Novels of Anthony Burgess » Read Now
by Robert K. Morris. 90 pgs.

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...AN ESSAY ON THE NOVELS OF ANTHONY BURGESS A LITERARY FRONTIERS EDITION...productive and creative years, Anthony Burgess has published dozens of essays...Pritchard, "The...
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The Sublime Crime: Fascination, Failure, and Form in Literature of the Enlightenment » Read Now
by Stephanie Barbe Hammer. 228 pgs.

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...The Sublime Crime Fascination, Failure, and Form in Literature of the Enlightenment Stephanie Barbe Hammer Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and...
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Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature » Read Now
by Thomas Reed Whissen. 324 pgs.

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Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first...
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Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first presenting an informed and witty interpretation of the phenomenon and its characteristics with examples from different cultures and periods. The individual works are each discussed relative to time and place, impact, and audience psychology and analyzed in terms of common cult attributes. A chronological listing of cult fiction adds a number of titles not chosen for the top 50.
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Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide » Read Now
by M. Keith Booker. 412 pgs.

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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and...
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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and summarizes several important utopian works to provide a background. The rest of the book summarizes and analyzes numerous dystopian novels, plays, and films.
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Transformations of Language in Modern Dystopias » Read Now
by David W. Sisk. 206 pgs.

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As the 20th century has progressed, dystopian fiction has gained power as utopian fiction has become increasingly irrelevant. As an overtly didactic genre, dystopia extrapolates terrifying near-futures from disturbing current trends. In order to quickly create an atmosphere that is at once plausible...
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As the 20th century has progressed, dystopian fiction has gained power as utopian fiction has become increasingly irrelevant. As an overtly didactic genre, dystopia extrapolates terrifying near-futures from disturbing current trends. In order to quickly create an atmosphere that is at once plausible and terrifying, dystopian writers almost universally turn to an idea certain to generate both fear and sympathy in the reader--the dual concept of language as the primary tool by which repressive societies stifle dissent, and simultaneously as the primary weapon used by rebels bent on understanding, resisting, and countering such oppression. This volume traces the evolution of language's centrality in 20th-century dystopias in English, including Brave New World, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, The Handmaid's Tale, Native Tongue, The Judas Rose, and Riddley Walker.
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Essential Opposition: The Novels of Anthony Burgess, in Critique » Read Now
by Thomas Leclair. 18 pgs.

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...Essential Opposition: The Novels of Anthony Burgess THOMAS LECLAIR When, in...A Vision of Battlements , Anthony Burgess describes his hero Ennis as...relevant, to note that...
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Continuance and Change: The Contemporary British Novel Sequence (Chap. 4 "Anthony Burgess the Malayan Trilogy: the Futility of History") » Read Now
by Harry T. Moore, Robert K. Morris. 164 pgs.

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Ironies and Inversions: The Art of Anthony Burgess, in Commonweal » Read Now
by Suzanne Keen. 4 pgs.

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