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A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new approaches to reading 1960s experimental fiction.

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Joseph Darlington, University of Salford, UK Adam Guy, University of Oxford, UK Nick Hubble, Brunel University, UK David Mark Hucklesby, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Sebastian Jenner, Brunel University, UK Rod Mengham, Cambridge University, UK Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK Paul Vlitos, University of Surrey, UK Glyn White, University of Salford, UK

Inhalt
Notes on Contributors Introduction; Julia Jordan PART I: JOHNSON IN HIS TIME: INFLUENCES AND CONTEMPORARIES 1. Early Influences and Aesthetic Emergence: Travelling People (1961), Albert Angelo (1964), Trawl (1966) and The Unfortunates (1969); Philip Tew 2. Johnson and the nouveau roman: Trawl and other Butorian Projects; Adam Guy 3. 'Like Loose Leaves in the Wind': Identification and Character in The Unfortunates and Composition No. 1; Greg Buchanan 4. B. S. Johnson and the Aleatoric Novel; Sebastian Jenner 5. Cell of One: B. S. Johnson, Christie Malry and The Angry Brigade; Joseph Darlington 6. 'Educated and intelligent, if down-at-heel': John Wain's Hurry On Down and B. S. Johnson's Albert Angelo; Martin Ryle PART II: JOHNSON OUT OF TIME: THE PERSISTENCE OF MODERNISM 7. Antepostdated Johnson; Rod Mengham 8. Evacuating Samuel Beckett and B.S. Johnson; Julia Jordan 9. The Sadism of the Author or the Masochism of the Reader?; Glyn White 10. Sex, Lies and Autobiografiction: Travelling People and the Persistence of Modernism; Nick Hubble 11. 'Make of Them What You Will': The Short Prose Pieces of B. S. Johnson; Paul Vlitos 12. B. S. Johnson, Giles Gordon and a 'New Fiction': The Book, the Screen and the E-book; David Hucklesby Index

Titel

B S Johnson and Post-War Literature

Untertitel

Possibilities of the Avant-Garde

Editor

M. Ryle

J. Jordan

EAN

9781137349552

ISBN

978-1-137-34955-2

Format