{"product_id":"9783319664101","title":"The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess: Fire of Words","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess: Fire of Words\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eClarke, Jim\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of the twentieth century's most innovative authors. This book explores Burgess's dazzlingly diverse range of novels through the one key theme which links them all – the artistic process itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorrowing from Nietzsche's aesthetic dichotomy of Apollo and Dionysus, the book uncovers the protracted evolution of Burgess's fiction and offers a unifying theory which links his early postcolonial fiction chronologically, via his modernist experiments like \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNothing Like The Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, to his late classics \u003ci\u003eMozart and the Wolfgang\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Dead Man in Deptford\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume clarifies Burgess's seminal role as both late modernist and early postmodernist, and lucidly unveils the legacy of England's most mercurial novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2017-11-13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319664101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-66411-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 303\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47695792537740,"sku":"9783319664101","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319664101.jpg?v=1776776782","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783319664101","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}