B S Johnson and Post-War Literature

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Avant-Garde Possibilities — B.S. Johnson and the Sixties Generation

   1. Introduction: Avant-Garde Possibilities — B.S. Johnson and the Sixties Generation

      • Julia Jordan

      Pages 1-13

3. Johnson in His Time: Influences and Contemporaries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Early Influences and Aesthetic Emergence: Travelling People (1961), Albert Angelo (1964), Trawl (1966) and The Unfortunates (1969)

      • Philip Tew

      Pages 17-34

   3. Johnson and the nouveau roman: Trawl and other Butorian Projects

      • Adam Guy

      Pages 35-53

   4. ‘Like loose leaves in the wind’: Effacement and Characterisation in B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates and Marc Saporta’s Composition No. 1

      • Greg Buchanan

      Pages 54-70

   5. B.S. Johnson and the Aleatoric Novel

      • Sebastian Jenner

      Pages 71-86

   6. Cell of One: B.S. Johnson, Christie Malry and the Angry Brigade

      • Joseph Darlington

      Pages 87-102

   7. ‘Educated and intelligent, if down-at-heel’: John Wain’s Hurry On Down and B.S. Johnson’s Albert Angelo

      • Martin Ryle

      Pages 103-117

4. Johnson Out of Time: The Persistence of Modernism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Antepostdated Johnson

      • Rod Mengham

      Pages 121-135

   3. Evacuating Samuel Beckett and B.S. Johnson

      • Julia Jordan

      Pages 136-152

   4. The Sadism of the Author or the Masochism of the Reader?

      • Glyn White

      Pages 153-166

   5. Sex, Lies and Autobiografiction: Travelling People and the Persistence of Modernism

      • Nick Hubble

      Pages 167-182

   6. ‘Make of Them What You Will’: The Short Prose Pieces of B.S. Johnson

      • Paul Vlitos

      Pages 183-201

   7. B.S. Johnson, Giles Gordon and a ‘New Fiction’: The Book, the Screen and the E-book

      • David Mark Hucklesby

      Pages 202-216

5. Back Matter

   Pages 217-221

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A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new approaches to reading 1960s experimental fiction.

• Beckett
• English literature
• fiction
• Modernism
• Nouveau Roman
• post-war literature
• prose
• Samuel Beckett
• British and Irish Literature

• UCL, UK

  Julia Jordan

• University of Sussex, UK

  Martin Ryle

Joseph Darlington, University of Salford, UK Adam Guy, University of Oxford, UK Nick Hubble, Brunel University, UK David Mark Hucklesby, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Sebastian Jenner, Brunel University, UK Rod Mengham, Cambridge University, UK Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK Paul Vlitos, University of Surrey, UK Glyn White, University of Salford, UK

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