Re-reading B. S. Johnson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

Growing academic interest and the republication of B.S. Johnson's major works have been reinforced by Coe's award-winning biography Like A Fiery Elephant (2004). With a preface by Coe, this collection, co-edited by two leading Johnson scholars, offers an annotated bibliography, a chronology and readings of the author and his work.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-07-13
Mått:140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Upplaga:2007
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780230524927

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PHILIP TEW is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK. He publishes widely on contemporary British fiction and critical theory, and co-edits a series on Contemporary Fiction for Palgrave Macmillan. Other works include B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading (2001), The Contemporary British Novel (2004) and Jim Crace (2006). GLYN WHITE is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford, UK. He has published articles on Alasdair Gray, Christine Brooke-Rose and B. S. Johnson, and a monograph entitled Reading

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Note on Primary Texts Prefatory Essay: B.S. Johnson and Academia; J.Coe Introduction: Re-Reading B.S. Johnson; G.White & P.Tew Chronology: Concerning Bryan Stanley Johnson; P.Tew PART ONE: RE-READING THE NOVELS The (w)hole affect: creative reading and typographic immersion in Albert Angelo ; D.James Pentonville modernism: fate and resentment in Albert Angelo ; R.Bond The Unfortunates : Hypertext, linearity and the act of reading; K.Mitchell 'From embryo to embryan': See the Old Lady Decently - a problematic birth?; R.L.Harris 'The mind has fuses': Detonating B.S. Johnson; C.Watts PART TWO: RE-READING THE AUTHOR In the net: B.S. Johnson, the biography and Trawl ; R.Mengham Strange intercessions: contraventions of the muse in the writings of B.S. Johnson; G.Barrett Institutional negotiations: B.S. Johnson and the BBC (1959-73); V.Butler B.S. Johnson's 'Introduction' to Aren't You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? : the memoir between life and literature; J.McGeough 'An evacuee for ever': B.S. Johnson versus ego psychology; N.Hubble PART THREE: RE-READING: NEW PERSPECTIVES Exemplary B.S: B.S. Johnson and the Toronto Research Group; B.Buchanan B.S.Johnson's Albert Angelo and the consequences of London; L.Phillips 'He would be working at the Welsh books': B.S. Johnson and the two literatures of Wales; N.Jones Otherness, post-coloniality and pedagogy in B.S. Johnson's Albert Angelo (1964) and See the Old Lady Decently (1975); P.Tew Annotated Bibliography of Johnson Studies Index