Articles related to "Anthony Burgess"



The Slang of A Clockwork Orange
The "nadsat" slang of A Clockwork Orange is unique. Mixing Russian with English rhyming slang challenges readers, and keeps Anthony Burgess's classic novel fresh.
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A Clockwork Orange: Dual Finality
Additional chapter provides incite to Burgess' design, but may leave long time fans feeling a bit thrown off the band wagon.
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Anthony Burgess Brief Biography
Brief biography and works of author Anthony Burgess, known for his portrayal of a violent youth in his famous novel.
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The Look and Sound of Byrne: A Novel
Anthony Burgess's posthumously-published fiction may be written in verse, but the "novelistic" visual effects of the book cannot be appreciated when it is read aloud.
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Banned Books Week: Radcliff List
Out of the Top 100 books of the 20th Century as listed by the Radcliff Publishing Course, 42 are or have been on the banned or challenged book list.
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Throwing Grammar Out the Window
Some educators are very distraught over the deterioration of the rules of the English language. I think it's fantastic!!
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Writing Prompts #3
More writing prompts to keep the words flowing.
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Fiction Writers Source of Inspiration
Shakespeare, "The Bard of Avon", wrote more than two dozen plays,150 sonnets, and several longer poems. Authors have adapted his characters and plots in well-known works
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James Joyce in Trieste, Italy
The port city of Trieste was both a refuge and an inspiration to Irish writer James Joyce, who lived there for nearly eleven years between 1904 and 1920.
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London Coffee Houses
In Bartholomew Lane, on the backside of the old Exchange, the drink called Coffee, which is a very wholesom and Physical drink, having many excellent virtues, closes the orifice of the Stomach, fortifies the heat within, helpeth Digestion, quickeneth the Spirits, maketh, the heart lightsom, is good against Eye-sores, Coughs or Colds, Rhumes, Consumptions, Headache, Dropsie, Gout, Scurvy, King's Evil, and many others, is to be sold both in the morning; and at three of the clock in the afternoon. - an advert printed in the Public Advertiser, 19.5.1657
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Norman Mailer: 50 Years of Writing
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IT'S THE SCRIPT, STUPID: CYRANO DE BERGERAC and THE FIELD
A look at the films CYRANO DE BERGERAC, which both feature over-the-top leading performances, and why only CYRANO works.
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Review of The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee
With a resplendent vocabulary, novelist Upamanyu Chatterjee tells perhaps way too much about the ties that bind and strangle one small urban Indian family.
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What Did James Joyce Mean When He Wrote Ulysses Anyway ? Part VI
In the first half of the twentieth century, James Joyce composed one of the most influential novels in the history of the literary canon. The novel begins with the journey of a wanderer. This journey is portrayed against a backdrop of time moving within the boundaries of imagination. This sixth article of a larger series looks at the path of Stephen Dedalus within the mythic narrative of Telemachus.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE : Beyond the Stage and Sonnet
William Shakespeare---one of the most passionate poets and playrights in the world. He found passion on the page, but how did his true-life romances fare?
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What Did James Joyce Mean When He Wrote Ulysses Anyway ? Part V
As can be seen in the previous four articles, James Joyce took the novel to new heights, and carried the mind of the reader to places where he or she had never been taken before, by re-telling an old story in a new place and time. This article is the fifth in a series looking at Ulysses. In this article, we delve into the meaning of a strange word: Chrysostomos.
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What Did James Joyce Mean When He Wrote Ulysses Anyway ? Part IV
This fourth in a series studying the novel Ulysses, begins a study of the first chapter. Stephen is introduced, and the reader sees him struggling in the next phase of his intellectual journey: that of the transformation from student to artist.
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