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Author : Anthony Burgess
Release : 1975
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Joysprick by : Anthony Burgess
Download or read book Joysprick written by Anthony Burgess. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. White
Release : 2010-11-23
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 994/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Grand Continuum by : David A. White
Download or read book The Grand Continuum written by David A. White. This book was released on 2010-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The assumptions that literary criticism and philosophy are closely linked—and that both disciplines can learn much from each other—lead David White to examine key passages in James Joyce's novels both as a philosopher and as literary critic. In so doing, he develops a thesis that Joyce's attempt to capture the mysterious process whereby perception and consciousness are translated into language entails a fundamental challenge to everyday notions of reality. Joyce's stylistic brilliance and virtuosity, his destruction of normal syntax and meaning, "shock one into a new reality." In the book's final section, White examines the subtle relation between literary language and human consciousness and traces parallels between Joyce's stylistic experimentation and Wittgenstein's and Husserl's ideas about language.
Author : Á. I. Farkas
Release : 2002
Genre : English fiction
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Book Rating : 353/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Will's Son and Jake's Peer by : Á. I. Farkas
Download or read book Will's Son and Jake's Peer written by Á. I. Farkas. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Burgess combined high artistic seriousness with very broad popular appeal. The writer of A Clockwork Orange and Napoleon Symphony variously cast himself in the roles of uncompromising artist and willing entertainer. What links these contradictory aspirations is Burgess' ambivalent relationship with James Joyce. In his daring experimentation with the novel form, Burgess always had the Joycean example to emulate, but he also invoked the great precursor to vindicate the rawer components of his art. The author is not blinded by his comparative agenda to Burgess' debts incurred elsewhere. Burgess' work reverberates with echoes of lesser masters as well as securely canonized classics: his voices include the Maughamesque and the Shakespearean as they do the Eliotian and, of course, the Joycean. Anthony Burgess is thus reintroduced as a (post)modern classic himself: Jake's deserving peer and Will's true son.
Author : Ben Masters
Release : 2017-12-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 864/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Novel Style by : Ben Masters
Download or read book Novel Style written by Ben Masters. This book was released on 2017-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find some linguistic luxury, we are flirting with a recessionary mood. Big books abound, but rhetorical largesse at the level of the sentence is a shrinking economy. There is a prevailing minimalist sensibility in the twenty-first century. Novel Style is driven by the conviction that elaborate writing opens up unique ways of thinking that are endangered when expression is reduced to its leanest possible forms. By re-examining the works of essential English stylists of the late twentieth century (Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis), as well as a newer generation of twenty-first-century stylists (Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, David Mitchell), Ben Masters argues for the ethical power of stylistic flamboyance in fiction and demonstrates how being a stylist and an ethicist are one and the same thing. A passionate championing of elaborate writing and close reading, Novel Style illuminates what it means to have style and how style can change us. .
