B S Johnson and Post-War Literature [electronic resource] : Possibilities of the Avant-Garde /
Ryle, M.editor.
Jordan, J.editor.
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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Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Avant-Garde Possibilities - B.S. Johnson and the Sixties Generation; 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); 2 Johnson and the nouveau roman: Trawl and other Butorian Projects; 3 'Like loose leaves in the wind': Effacement and Characterisation in B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates and Marc Saporta's Composition No. 1; 4 B.S. Johnson and the Aleatoric Novel
5 Cell of One: B.S. Johnson, Christie Malry and the Angry Brigade6 'Educated and intelligent, if down-at-heel': John Wain's Hurry On Down and B.S. Johnson's Albert Angelo; Part II: Johnson Out of Time: The Persistence of Modernism; 7 Antepostdated Johnson; 8 Evacuating Samuel Beckett and B.S. Johnson; 9 The Sadism of the Author or the Masochism of the Reader?; 10 Sex, Lies and Autobiografiction: Travelling People and the Persistence of Modernism; 11 'Make of Them What You Will': The Short Prose Pieces of B.S. Johnson
12 B.S. Johnson, Giles Gordon and a 'New Fiction': The Book, the Screen and the E-bookIndex of Authors and Works Cited
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Fiction.
Literature-Philosophy.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.