Re-reading B. S. Johnson
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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Re-reading B. S. Johnson
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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Re-reading B. S. Johnson

Re-reading B. S. Johnson

Re-reading B. S. Johnson

Re-reading B. S. Johnson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349357369
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 07/13/2007
Edition description: 1st ed. 2007
Pages: 246
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

GERARD BARRETT Director of Studies for English at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, UK ROBERT BOND Scholar and writer BRADLEY BUCHANAN Assistant Professor of English at Sacramento State University, California, USA VALERIE BUTLER Independent scholar JONATHAN COE Novelist and biographer of B.S. Johnson RICHARD LEIGH HARRIS Professional musician NICK HUBBLE Research Fellow at the Centre for Suburban Studies, Kingston University, UK DAVID JAMES Lecturer in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature, University of Nottingham, UK NICHOLAS JONES Independent scholar JARED MCGEOUGH Doctoral Student, University of Western Ontario, Canada ROD MENGHAM Reader in Modern English Literature, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK KAYE MITCHELL Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster, UK LAWRENCE PHILLIPS Senior Lecturer in English, School of Arts, University of Northampton, UK CAROL WATTS Lecturer in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Table of Contents

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
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