Anthony Burgess Panel at The Midwest Conference on British Studies hosted by Webster University

Christopher Thurley Announcement
Location
Missouri, United States
Subject Fields
Literature

We are currently seeking literature scholars interested in presenting a paper on Anthony Burgess at the The Midwest Conference on British Studies. Our panel proposal is as follows:

This panel’s goal will be to discuss the British author Anthony Burgess’s life, literary works, non-fiction, travels, journalism, and music in the centenary year since Burgess’s birth in 1917. Although Burgess is largely known for A Clockwork Orange, this panel will explore other less known aspects of his massive corpus that spanned “thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 250 other musical works, and thousands of essays, articles and reviews” (The International Anthony Burgess Foundation). Burgess was a scholar, and yet not a scholar, a teacher, a polyglot, an autodidact, a satirist, a comedic writer with elitist tendencies, a journalist, a musician and composer, a lecturer, a verbose and lively speaker, and, ultimately, a genius whose work is experiencing a resurgence in the twenty-first century. Burgess’s many allusions and frameworks used to design and carry out his ideas demand close attention since he acted as a voice for the post-colonial canon, a curator of modernist techniques and an engineer of postmodernist artistic creations. This panel will focus on these more abstruse products of his career in order to provide a more complete view of one of the most important and prolific writers of the twentieth century.

Scholars that are seriously interested in contributing to this panel must email me a 200 word proposal for your presentation and a one page CV before March 26, 2017.

Contact Information

Scholars that are seriously interested in contributing to this panel must email me a 200 word proposal for your presentation and a one page CV before March 26, 2017.

Contact Email
thurleyc@yahoo.com