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, but the proposal document offers a detailed statement about his thinking on modernism, not simply as a historical movement but as a continuous artistic project […]
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2 events,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, but the proposal document offers a detailed statement about his thinking on modernism, not simply as a historical movement but as a continuous artistic project […] |
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1 event,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 in his representation of the police, from the imperial force with which he served in Burma in the 1920s, to the Spanish police from whom […] |
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1 event,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 symptomatic of the newspapers’ growing influence on the reading public. In a famous 1860 review, H. L. Manse conflated this new novelistic form – which […] |
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