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Graham Martin began by asking Anthony Burgess whether the close relationship between Charles Dickens and his reading public was still possible today. Burgess discusses how far that relationship aff...ected the way Dickens wrote and what he wrote about. The two go on to discuss the proposition by the French critic Roland Barthes that the writer does not control language and is instead 'written' as it were. Burgess concludes by identifying stylistic repetition as being the greatest crime a novelist can be guilty of, since after all the novel should be, as he puts it, literally the 'new thing'.
Graham Martin began by asking Anthony Burgess whether the close relationship between Charles Dickens and his reading public was still possible today. Burgess discusses how far that relationship aff...ected the way Dickens wrote and what he wrote about. The two go on to discuss the proposition by the French critic Roland Barthes that the writer does not control language and is instead 'written' as it were. Burgess concludes by identifying stylistic repetition as being the greatest crime a novelist can be guilty of, since after all the novel should be, as he puts it, literally the 'new thing'.
| Module code and title: | A102, An arts foundation course |
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| Item code: | A102; 03 |
| First transmission date: | 1987 |
| Published: | 1987 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:17:32 |
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| Producer: | Tony Coe |
| Contributors: | Anthony Burgess; Graham Martin |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Barthes; Chomsky; Dickens |
| Master spool number: | TMK705_86YA0073LJO |
| Production number: | 86YA0073LJO |
| Available to public: | no |
