Re-reading B. S. Johnson

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ISBN: 0230524923
ISBN 13: 9780230524927
Herausgeber: P Tew/G White
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xviii, 246 S., 1 s/w Illustr., 246 p. 1 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.2007
Auflage: 1/2007
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Although not yet in the ‚canon‘ of contemporary British writers, the profile of B.S. Johnson has recently been building thanks to recent republication of all his major works, increasingly studied at undergraduate and postgraduate level 2 Includes a preface by the writer Jonathan Coe (Johnson’s biographer and author of The Rotter’s Club, The House of Sleep, etc) – his biography of Johnson ( Like a Fiery Elephant, Picador, 2004) won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2005 3 Includes leading names in Johnson studies and contemporary literature from Uk, US and Europe 4 Includes useful list of annotated further reading, chronology of Johnson’s life and five illustrations 5 Unique – no comparable collection exists

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Beschreibung

Growing academic interest and the republication of B.S. Johnson's major works have been reinforced by Coe's award-winning biography Like A Fiery Elephant (2004). With a preface by Coe, this collection, co-edited by two leading Johnson scholars, offers an annotated bibliography, a chronology and readings of the author and his work.

Autorenporträt

GERARD BARRETT Director of Studies for English at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, UK ROBERT BOND Scholar and writer BRADLEY BUCHANAN Assistant Professor of English at Sacramento State University, California, USA VALERIE BUTLER Independent scholar JONATHAN COE Novelist and biographer of B.S. Johnson RICHARD LEIGH HARRIS Professional musician NICK HUBBLE Research Fellow at the Centre for Suburban Studies, Kingston University, UK DAVID JAMES Lecturer in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature, University of Nottingham, UK NICHOLAS JONES Independent scholar JARED MCGEOUGH Doctoral Student, University of Western Ontario, Canada ROD MENGHAM Reader in Modern English Literature, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK KAYE MITCHELL Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster, UK LAWRENCE PHILLIPS Senior Lecturer in English, School of Arts, University of Northampton, UK CAROL WATTS Lecturer in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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