Alan Hollinghurst and the vitality of influence / Allan Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Allan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hollinghurst, Alan--Criticism and interpretation.

Hollinghurst, Alan.

Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Hollinghurst, Alan.

Physical Description:

viii, 184 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

As the first full-length study of the work of Alan Hollinghurst, Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. By focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves towards a new understanding of the interpenetration of literary and visual culture throughout the twentieth century. In doing so, this engaging new study illuminates the relationships between texts that are lost when influence is viewed as an anxious wish to triumph over the very history of images that an author has most loved and most powerfully reawakened. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 influence, Image, and the Movement of Time 9

2 Sun-Worship and the Idolatry of Images: Derek Jarman, Philip Glass, and The Swimming-Tool Library 31

3 The Poets of Our Time: Lateness and Pedagogical Influence in The Folding Star 61

4 Almost Always: Influence, Ecstasy, and Architectural Imagination in The Spell 84

5 Spitting Images: Image, Text, and the Popular Press in The Line of Beauty 113

6 The Latterday Sortes Virgilianae: Confirmation Bias and the Image of the Poet in The Stranger's Child 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137362025

1137362022

OCLC:

876671229