Putting the Boot In’: A Clockwork Orange, Post-’69 Youth Culture and the Onset of Late Modernity

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Abstract

This chapter is a consideration of the ways in which A Clockwork Orange, both Anthony Burgess’ original novella (1962) and Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation (1971), have been reproduced within youth culture since 1969. Indeed, the chapter suggests that A Clockwork Orange is no longer a prophecy of society’s decline but now a text that encourages cohesion at a time of social fragmentation. Thus, the chapter insists, A Clockwork Orange as a modernist dystopian text, serves to provide inspirational cohesion to globally dis/connected youth in a late modernist world.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAnthony Burgess and Modernity
Pages147-164
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2008

Keywords

  • anthony burgess
  • youth culture
  • late modernity

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