{"id":689,"date":"2023-01-30T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=689"},"modified":"2023-04-08T07:53:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T06:53:56","slug":"anthony-burgess-versus-stanley-kubrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/anthony-burgess-versus-stanley-kubrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Burgess versus Stanley Kubrick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had the pleasure last week of speaking at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthonyburgess.org\/event\/literature-burgess-kubrick-and-a-clockwork-orange\/\" title=\"panel discussion\">panel discussion<\/a> to launch a new book entitled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blackwells.co.uk\/bookshop\/product\/Anthony-Burgess-Stanley-Kubrick-and-A-Clockwork-Orange-by-Matthew-Melia-editor-Georgina-Orgill-editor\/9783031055980?a_aid=BurgessFoundation\" title=\"Burgess, Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange.\">Burgess, Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image.png?resize=525%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is co-edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/docmelia\" title=\"Dr Matt Melia from Kingston University\">Dr Matt Melia from Kingston University<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/georginaorgill?lang=en\" title=\"Georgina Orgill, the archivist of Stanley Kubrick\">Georgina Orgill, the archivist of Stanley Kubrick<\/a>. For those with an interest in the great brainwashing fable, in either literary or cinematic form, it&#8217;s a great read, from Matt and Georgina&#8217;s introduction, to the final essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ponyingtheslovos.coventry.domains\" title=\"Ponying the Slovos team\">Ponying the Slovos team<\/a> were honoured to be able to contribute to the volume, and eagerly grasped the opportunity to compare Burgess&#8217;s Nadsat to that which features in Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s script (and thereafter, the movie itself.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alas, as is so often the case with academic research these days, the purchase price is not so cheap. My suggestion is to ask a friendly academic librarian to consider purchasing it on your behalf. However, I can offer you a flavour of what we discovered, and subsequently wrote about in the volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M&#8217;learned colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/ponyingtheslovos.coventry.domains\/outputs\/nadsat-on-screen-burgess-vs-kubrick\/\" title=\"Benet Vincent has written up a fascinating article over at the Ponying the Slovos blog\">Benet Vincent has written up a fascinating article over at the Ponying the Slovos blog<\/a>, explaining the differences between Burgess&#8217;s Nadsat and Kubrick&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you will read it, and perhaps also get the chance to look at the book, not to mention its gorgeous cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Melia-book-cover.jpg?resize=400%2C564&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Melia-book-cover.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Melia-book-cover.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure last week of speaking at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, as part of a panel discussion to launch a new book entitled Burgess, Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange. The book is co-edited by Dr Matt Melia from Kingston University, and Georgina Orgill, the archivist of Stanley Kubrick. For those with an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/anthony-burgess-versus-stanley-kubrick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anthony Burgess versus Stanley Kubrick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,58,19,28],"tags":[22,29,24,479],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-cinema","category-invented-languages","category-literary-criticism","tag-anthony-burgess","tag-invented-languages","tag-ponying-the-slovos","tag-stanley-kubrick"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimclarke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Melia-book-cover.jpg?fit=400%2C564&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-b7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}