Anthony Burgess

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Bibliography

Coale, Samuel. Anthony Burgess. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981, pp. 209-15.

Listing of secondary sources, including doctoral dissertations on Burgess.

――――――. "Criticism of Anthony Burgess: A Selected Checklist." Modern Fiction Studies 27, No. 3 (Autumn 1981): 533-36.

Listing of secondary sources, including general essays, interviews, and discussions of specific works.

Criticism

Dix, Carol M. Anthony Burgess. Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 1971, 31 p.

General overview of Burgess' life and works through 1971.

Evans, Robert O. "The Nouveau Roman, Russian Dystopias, and Anthony Burgess." In British Novelists Since 1900, pp. 253-66. New York: AMS Press, 1987.

Discusses the place of Burgess's works within the genre of the dystopian novel.

Hammer, Stephanie Barbé. "Conclusion: Resistance, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Failure in Modern Criminal Literature." In The Sublime Crime: Fascination, Failure, and Form in Literature of the Enlightenment, pp. 154-74. Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.

Discusses A Clockwork Orange as an example of "criminal literature."

LeClair, Thomas. "Essential Opposition: The Novels of Anthony Burgess." Critique XII, No. 3 (1971): 77-94.

Argues that there is a "dialectic of opposites" that structures meaning in Burgess's novels.

Nehring, Neil. "The Shifting Relations of Literature and Popular Music in Postwar England." Discourse 12, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1989–1990): 78-103.

Discussion of literature and music in relation to youth subculture in England.

Interviews

Coale, Samuel. "An Interview with Anthony Burgess." Modern Fiction Studies 27, No. 3 (Autumn 1981): 429-52.

Discussion of Burgess's personal life and his views on religion and modernism in literature.

Cullinan, John, "Anthony Burgess." The Paris Review 14, No. 56 (Spring 1973): 119-63.

Discussion of Burgess's writing techniques, influences, and his views on music, Catholicism, and politics.

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