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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2025Anthony Burgess and America
The untold story behind the American influences on Burgess’s life, work and legacy
by Christopher W Thurley
Anthony Burgess and America is a biographical and critical analysis of Burgess's commentary on and relationship with the United States of America. Utilising Burgess's entire canon and newly discovered materials to assess Burgess's views on America, this book also evaluates the American inspirations in five Burgess novels. This essential addition to Burgess scholarship tells the story of a nearly unexplored area of Burgess's life. For the first time ever, Burgess's American experiences, work, and documented communication, lectures, interviews and public utterances are brought together to assess where these commentaries overlapped with his fiction. The result is a complex personal and public history about one of Britain's greatest twentieth century authors and their immersion into and interaction with American culture in the second half of the twentieth century.
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FictionJuly 2023The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End
By Anthony Burgess
by Ákos Farkas, Anthony Burgess
First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971. This is the end of Enderby, Anthony Burgess's finest comic creation. Dyspeptic and obese, this is the account of his last day as a visiting professor in New York, and his last day on Earth. The Irwell Edition of The Clockwork Testament will provide new information about the genesis of the novel, gleaned from a series of drafts and typescripts recently discovered in the archive of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) in Manchester, as well as printing a deleted chapter for the first time in English.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Order and conflict
Anthony Ascham and English political thought (1648–50)
by Peter Lake, Marco Barducci, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and the establishment of the English Republic, when he served as official pamphleteer of the Parliament and the republican government, Ascham put forward a complex argument in support of Parliament's claims for obedience which drew on the political thought of Grotius, Hobbes, Selden, Filmer and Machiavelli. He combined ideas taken from these authors and turned them into a powerful instrument of propaganda to be deployed in the service of the political agenda of his Independent patrons in Parliament. This investigation of Ascham's works brings together an intellectual analysis of his political thought and an exploration of the interaction between politics, propaganda and political ideas.
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September 2010Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte. Mit einem Vorwort von Anthony Horowitz
Arena Kinderbuch-Klassiker
by Dickens, Charles / Einleitung von Horowitz, Anthony
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March 1997Jenseits von Links und Rechts
Die Zukunft radikaler Demokratie
by Anthony Giddens, Joachim Schulte
In diesem Buch skizziert Anthony Giddens eine radikal-kritische Politik jenseits aller eingefahrenen Denkmuster: Ausgehend von den Begriffen Globalisierung, Enttraditionalisierung und Ungewißheit beleuchtet er die sozialen Revolutionen unserer Zeit, zeigt die Widersprüche konservativer Politik, stellt zwei Theorien der Demokratisierung einander gegenüber und eintwirft ein Programm radikaler Demokratie
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2020Antony and Cleopatra
by Carol Chillington Rutter, Jim Bulman
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The ArtsApril 2011Anthony Asquith
by Tom Ryall, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard
This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and cultural influences which shaped his films. Asquith's silent films were compared favourably to those of his eminent contemporary Alfred Hitchcock, but his career faltered during the 1930s. However, the success of Pygmalion (1938) and French Without Tears (1939), based on plays by George Bernard Shaw and Terence Rattigan, together with his significant contributions to wartime British cinema, re-established him as a leading British film maker. Asquith's post-war career includes several pictures in collaboration with Terence Rattigan, and the definitive adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1951), but his versatility is demonstrated in a number of modest genre films including The Woman in Question (1950), The Young Lovers (1954) and Orders to Kill (1958). ;
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November 1989Wittgenstein
Aus dem Englischen von Hermann Vetter
by Anthony Kenny, Hermann Vetter
Anthony Kenny studierte in Rom und Oxford und lehrte seitdem an verschiedenen Universitäten (u.a. an der University of Chicago und der Stanford University). Veröffentlichungen: Action, Emotion and Will (1963), The Five Ways (1969) und Descartes (1968). Zur Zeit arbeitet er an einer Übersetzung von Wittgensteins nachgelassener Philosophischer Grammatik. Kennys Einführung in die Philosophie Ludwig Wittgensteins wendet sich weniger an die etablierte akademische Philosophie als vielmehr an ein breiteres Publikum von »Laien«, das an allgemeinen sprachphilosophischen Themen interessiert ist. Kenny ist es gelungen, so weit in die moderne Logik einzuführen - und zwar unter weitgehendem Verzicht auf mathematische Symbolik -, daß sich der Leser ohne größere Schwierigkeiten auf diesem Gebiet mit Wittgensteins Werken beschäftigen kann. Das vorliegende Buch ist eines der ersten, das das umfangreiche Œuvre Wittgensteins als ganzes darstellt; sein Wert liegt nicht zuletzt darin, daß es sich ausführlich mit den erst kürzlich publizierten Werken aus Wittgensteins mittlerer Zeit befaßt: mit den Philosophischen Bemerkungen und der Philosophischen Grammatik.
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FictionSeptember 2017A Vision of Battlements
by Anthony Burgess
by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake
A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2008Anthony Burgess and modernity
by Alan Roughley
Anthony Burgess and Modernity provides a variety of new perspectives and contexts for exploring Burgess's literature and music. A range of international scholars and critics explore the writer's novels, music and linguistic productions to explore and define how Burgess contributed to modernist and postmodernist art. The scholars who contributed to the book provide original explorations of Burgess's work and the theological, psychological, linguistic, literary and musical contexts in which Burgess's achievements can best be understood. It will appeal to scholars and students, but it also offers an appreciation of Burgess's artistic achievements that will provide general readers of Burgess's work with an insight into some of the exciting contexts in which Burgess novels can be read. ;
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September 2024Weihnachten in Kirkby Cottage
Britische Weihnachten und ein Happy End mit Hindernissen.
by Anthony Trollope, Irmela Schautz, Andrea Ott
»Eigentlich ist Weihnachten langweilig.« Nur ein kleiner Satz, aber für Isabel Lownd unverzeihlich, zumal er aus dem Mund des jungen Mannes kommt, in den sie sich – noch im Geheimen – unsterblich verliebt hat: Maurice Archer, ein junger Gutsbesitzer aus der Gegend und Freund der Familie, verbringt die Feiertage mit der Pastorenfamilie Lownd, und auch er ist unsterblich in Isabel verliebt. Doch die junge Frau, für die Weihnachten der schönste Tag des Jahres ist, ist tief gekränkt, und Maurice gibt sich alle Mühe, die Wogen wieder zu glätten und dem Fest der Liebe doch noch etwas abzugewinnen. Wird Isabel ihm seinen Fauxpas verzeihen? Eine herrlich vergnügliche Weihnachtsgeschichte um zwei Verliebte, deren Annäherung ausgerechnet an den Feiertagen allen möglichen Missverständnissen unterliegt – mit bestem britischem Humor von Anthony Trollope.
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2019ABBA ABBA: By Anthony Burgess
by Paul Howard, Andrew Biswell
ABBA ABBA is one of Anthony Burgess's most original works, combining fiction, poetry and translation. A product of his time in Italy in the early 1970s, this delightfully unconventional book is part historical novel, part poetry collection, as well as a meditation on translation and the generating of literature by one of Britain's most inventive post-war authors. Set in Papal Rome in the winter of 1820-21, Part One recreates the consumptive John Keats's final months in the Eternal City and imagines his meeting the Roman dialect poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Pitting Anglo-Italian cultures and sensibilities against each other, Burgess creates a context for his highly original versions of 71 sonnets by Belli, which feature in Part Two. This new edition includes extra material by Burgess, along with an introduction and notes by Paul Howard, Fellow in Italian Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2016A Fig for Fortune by Anthony Copley
by Susannah Monta, J. B. Lethbridge, Susannah Monta
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2016A Fig for Fortune by Anthony Copley
by Susannah Monta, J. B. Lethbridge, Susannah Monta, Rebecca Mortimer
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June 1979Briefe an Axel Juncker
by Rainer Maria Rilke, Renate Scharffenberg
Axel Juncker, zuerst Rilkes Berliner Buchhändler, dann der Verleger seines Novellenbandes »Die Letzten« (1901), seiner Gedichtsammlung Das »Buch der Bilder« (1902 und 1906) sowie einer Einzelausgabe der »Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornet Christoph Rilke« (1906) war der Adressat von Rainer Maria Rilkes Briefen, die den Zeitraum von 1900 bis 1926 mit dem Schwergewicht in den Jahren 1901 bis 1906 umfassen. Der Band enthält 138 Briefe und Karten Rilkes an Axel Juncker, eine Reihe von Manuskriptbeurteilungen durch Rilke und einen Anhang mit bisher unbekannten Besprechungen von Rilkes Büchern »Das tägliche Leben« (1901), »Die Letzten« (1901) und Das »Buch der Bilder«: (1902). Die Antworten Junckers wurden, soweit erhalten, in den ausführlichen Erläuterungen berücksichtigt.
