On John Berger : : telling stories / / edited by Ralf Hertel, David Malcolm.
This volume offers the first collection of essays on the work of John Berger, one of the most intriguing contemporary English writers. Comprising pieces by an interdisciplinary group of academics, On John Berger spans the full range of Berger’s prolific output as art critic, novelist, collaborator o...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume 188 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ; : Brill :, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Rodopi,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
Volume 188. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Notes: | Papers originally presented at a conference titled Ways fo seeing John Berger, held at King's College London on September 6-8, 2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Ralf Hertel and David Malcolm
- Introduction: On John Berger—Telling Stories / Ralf Hertel and David Malcolm
- ‘Naturally, I have changed most of the names’: The Johns of A Painter of Our Time / Richard Turney
- The Foot of Clive: The Collective in Quarantine / Stefan Welz
- Economy, Seduction, Transumption: ‘Boris’ and G. / John Bowen
- Prominent Absences: John Berger’s Benjaminian Storytelling / Miłosz Wojtyna
- Spatiotemporal Gymnastics in John Berger’s Into Their Labours / Marta Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna
- Refuting a Sentence, or: How John Berger Refutes Himself / Bartosz Lutostański
- John Berger’s Endless Text: Aesthetics of the Fragment, the Nouveau Roman, and Storytelling / Monika Szuba
- The Body of the Text: To the Wedding, From A to X, and the Corporeality of John Berger’s Later Fiction / Ralf Hertel
- John Berger: Epistolarity and a Life in Letters / Rachel Bower
- ‘As if it were the only one’: The Story of John Berger’s Booker Prize for G. / Tom Overton
- Surveying and Being Surveyed: Gender Aspects in John Berger’s Ways of Seeing / Charlotte Kent
- Country Man, Urban Migrant: A Seventh Man / Pilar Sánchez Calle
- ‘This is a correct decision’: An Analysis of Some Aspects of Style in John Berger’s Essays / David Malcolm
- ‘An irresponsible flow of images’: Berger, Clark, and the Art of Television, 1958–1988 / Jonathan Conlin
- John Berger and the Cinema / Joshua Sperling
- Invisible Cinema: John Berger, Play Me Something, and Walk Me Home / Timothy Neat
- Notes on Contributors / Ralf Hertel and David Malcolm.