Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence [electronic resource] /
Johnson, Allan.author.
Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new understanding of the interpenetration of literary and visual culture in the twentieth century.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Influence, Image, and the Movement of Time; 2 Sun-Worship and the Idolatry of Images: Derek Jarman, Philip Glass, and The Swimming-Pool Library; 3 The Poets of Our Time: Lateness and Pedagogical Influence in The Folding Star; 4 Almost Always: Influence, Ecstasy, and Architectural Imagination in The Spell; 5 Spitting Images: Image, Text, and the Popular Press in The Line of Beauty; 6 The Latterday Sortes Virgilianae: Confirmation Bias and the Image of the Poet in The Stranger''s Child; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new understanding of the interpenetration of literary and visual culture in the twentieth century.
Hollinghurst, Alan
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Sociology.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Gender Studies.
Fiction.