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  • Anthony Burgess and Modernism

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Prof. Andrew Biswell - International Anthony Burgess Foundation (http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/english/staff/profile/index.php?id=1) Abstract In 1992 Anthony Burgess wrote a proposal for an unwritten book, ‘Modernism and Modern Man’. Burgess died the following year, […]

  • Anthony Burgess and Modernism

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Prof. Andrew Biswell - International Anthony Burgess Foundation (http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/english/staff/profile/index.php?id=1) Abstract In 1992 Anthony Burgess wrote a proposal for an unwritten book, ‘Modernism and Modern Man’. Burgess died the following year, […]

  • George Orwell and the Police

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Prof. Douglas Kerr - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/150/Professor%20Douglas%20Kerr) Abstract Police states are "Orwellian". This paper reads George Orwell to ask what the police meant to him. It traces continuities […]

  • The Newspaper Novel: Sensation, Realism, and Imagined Community

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr. Jessica Valdez - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/64/Dr%20J.%20R.%20Valdez) Abstract Victorian commentators saw the sensation novel—a short-lived sub-genre of the 1860s known for its fast-paced plots drawn from real life—as […]

  • Retroactive Jokes: Kafka’s Literary Laughter

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr. Alfie Bown - Hang Seng Management College (https://mst.hsu.edu.hk/en/) Abstract This paper discusses the relationship between literature and laughter, focusing not so much on representations of laughter nor on the […]