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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 on films and photo-text books, and essayist. Writing polemic art criticism, passing on part of the Booker Prize money to the Black Panthers, and quitting the London literary scene in the 1960s in order to settle in the French Alps, Berger has always been a controversial figure. On John Berger explores his self-fashioning as a public figure and simultaneously examines the literary, visual, and collaborative strategies of his work. Contributors: Marta Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna, John Bowen, Rachel Bower, Jonathan Conlin, Ralf Hertel, Charlotte Kent, Bartosz Lutostański, David Malcolm, Timothy Neat, Tom Overton, Pilar Sánchez Calle, Joshua Sperling, Monika Szuba, Richard Turney, Stefan Welz, Miłosz Wojtyna

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Author:   Ralf Hertel ,  David Malcolm
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   188
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9789004306127

ISBN 10:   9004306129
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   15 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements RALF HERTEL AND DAVID MALCOLM Introduction: On John Berger: Telling Stories 1. Fiction RICHARD TURNEY ‘Naturally, I have changed most of the names’: The Johns of A Painter of Our Time STEFAN WELZ The Foot of Clive: The Collective in Quarantine JOHN BOWEN Economy, Seduction, Transumption: ‘Boris’ and G. MIŁOSZ WOJTYNA Prominent Absences: John Berger’s Benjaminian Storytelling MARTA ALEKSANDROWICZ-WOJTYNA Spatiotemporal Gymnastics in John Berger’s Into Their Labours BARTOSZ LUTOSTAŃSKI Refuting a Sentence, or: How John Berger Refutes Himself MONIKA SZUBA John Berger’s Endless Text: Aesthetics of the Fragment, the Nouveau Roman, and Storytelling RALF HERTEL The Body of the Text: To the Wedding, From A to X, and the Corporeality of John Berger’s Later Fiction RACHEL BOWER John Berger: Epistolarity and a Life in Letters 2. Non-fiction TOM OVERTON ‘As if it were the only one’: The Story of John Berger’s Booker Prize for G. CHARLOTTE KENT Surveying and Being Surveyed: Gender Aspects in John Berger’s Ways of Seeing PILAR SÁNCHEZ CALLE Country Man, Urban Migrant: A Seventh Man DAVID MALCOLM ‘This is a correct decision’: An Analysis of Some Aspects of Style in John Berger’s Essays 3. On Screen JONATHAN CONLIN ‘An irresponsible flow of images’: Berger, Clark, and the Art of Television, 1958–1988 JOSHUA SPERLING John Berger and the Cinema TIMOTHY NEAT Invisible Cinema: John Berger, Play Me Something, and Walk Me Home Notes on Contributors

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RALF HERTEL, Professor of English Literature at the University of Trier, is author of Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s (2005) and co-editor of Performing National Identity: Anglo-Italian Cultural Encounters (2008). DAVID MALCOLM is a professor of English Literature at the University of Gdańsk. He is author and co-author of books on contemporary British and Irish fiction.

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