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Item Details
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B. S. JOHNSON
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| By: |
Kim Latham |
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Hardback |
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£45.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719056268 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719056260 |
| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
9 August, 2001 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
This study introduces the prose writing of B.S. Johnson, the quintessentially "lost" British novelist. The chapters analyze different themes and phases of Johnson's writing from the early experimental forms, to the works written in the years before his dramatic and tragic suicide. |
| Synopsis: |
This study introduces the prose writing of B.S. Johnson, the quintessentially "lost" or neglected British novelist. Famously he rejected fiction as lies. Celebrated in his short lifetime (1933-1973), Johnson both adapts the experimentalism of the nouveau roman, and commits his narratives to a plural and chaotic notion of truth as a literary critique. Using appropriate theorists and philosophers, Philip Tew contextualizes Johnson's works and advances a reading that sustains the novelist's importance and redeems the relevance of the socio-critical aspects of his oeuvre. The chapters analyze different themes and phases of Johnson's writing from the early experimental forms, to his autobiographical phase and finally the formally intricate works written in the years before his dramatic and tragic suicide. This literary recovery of Johnson offers interpretations in a full-length study of the author and his work. Given the growing interest in Johnson, and the reissue of his major works, the present study provides a critical context for students, researchers and academics interested in the fields of 20th-century literature, the novel, cultural studies, and literary theory. |
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UK |
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Manchester University Press |
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Returnable |
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