On John Berger : telling stories / edited by Ralf Hertel, David Malcolm.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hertel, Ralf, 1973- editor.

Malcolm, David, 1952- editor.

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 0929-6999 188.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berger, John--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Berger, John.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2016]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Fiction

'Naturally, I have changed most of the names': The Johns of A Painter of Our Time / Richard Turney Turney, Richard 31

The Foot of Clive: The Collective in Quarantine / Stefan Welz Welz, Stefan 49

Economy, Seduction, Transumption: 'Boris' and G. / John Bowen Bowen, John 63

Prominent Absences: John Berger's Benjaminian Storytelling / Milosz Wojtyna Wojtyna, Milosz 77

Spatiotemporal Gymnastics in John Berger's Into Their Labours / Marta Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna, Marta 95

Refuting a Sentence, or: How John Berger Refutes Himself / Bartosz Lutostanski Lutostanski, Bartosz 111

John Berger's Endless Text: Aesthetics of the Fragment, the Nouvean Roman, and Storytelling / Monika Szuba Szuba, Monika 129

The Body of the Text: To the Wedding, From A to X, and the Corporeality of John Berger's Later Fiction / Ralf Hertei Hertei, Ralf 143

John Berger: Epistolarity and a Life in Letters / Rachel Bower Bower, Rachel 163

2 Non-fiction

'As if it were the only one': The Story of John Berger's Booker Prize for G. / Tom Overton Overton, Tom 189

Surveying and Being Surveyed: Gender Aspects in John Berger's Ways of Seeing / Charlotte Kent Kent, Charlotte 211

Country Man, Urban Migrant: A Seventh Man / Pilar Sánchez Calle Calle, Pilar Sánchez 233

'This is a correct decision': An Analysis of Some Aspects of Style in John Berger's Essays / David Malcolm Malcolm, David 249

3 On Screen

'An irresponsible flow of images': Berger, Clark, and the Art of Television, 1958-1988 / Jonathan Conlin Conlin, Jonathan 269

John Berger and the Cinema / Joshua Sperling Sperling, Joshua 293

Invisible Cinema: John Berger, Play Me Something, and Walk Me Home / Timothy Neat Neat, Timothy 321.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a conference titled Ways fo seeing John Berger, held at King's College London on September 6-8, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

ISBN:

9004306129

9789004306127

OCLC:

927292864

Publisher Number:

99966259743