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

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (346 pages).
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Series Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 188
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 188.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Contents On John Berger: Telling Stories; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: On John Berger-Telling Stories; 1. Fiction; 'Naturally, I have changed most of the names': The Johns of A Painter of Our Time; The Foot of Clive: The Collective in Quarantine; Economy, Seduction, Transumption: 'Boris' and G.; Prominent Absences: John Berger's Benjaminian Storytelling; Spatiotemporal Gymnastics in John Berger's Into Their Labours; Refuting a Sentence, or: How John Berger Refutes Himself.
John Berger's Endless Text: Aesthetics of the Fragment, the Nouveau Roman, and StorytellingThe Body of the Text: To the Wedding, From A to X, and the Corporeality of John Berger's Later Fiction; John Berger: Epistolarity and a Life in Letters; 2. Non-fiction; 'As if it were the only one': The Story of John Berger's Booker Prize for G.; Surveying and Being Surveyed: Gender Aspects in John Berger's Ways of Seeing; Country Man, Urban Migrant: A Seventh Man; 'This is a correct decision': An Analysis of Some Aspects of Style in John Berger's Essays; 3. On Screen.
'An irresponsible flow of images': Berger, Clark, and the Art of Television, 1958-1988John Berger and the Cinema; Invisible Cinema: John Berger, Play Me Something, and Walk Me Home; Notes on Contributors.
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Subject Berger, John -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
Berger, John.
Criticism and interpretation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Hertel, Ralf, 1973-
Malcolm, David, 1952-
Other Form: Print version: Hertel, Ralf. On John Berger : Telling Stories. : BRILL, ©2015
ISBN 9004308113 (e-book)
9789004308114 (electronic book)
9004306129