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.
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: On John Berger -- Telling Stories / Ralf Hertel and David Malcolm -- 1. Fiction -- 'Naturally, I have changed most of the names': The Johns of A Painter of Our Time / Richard Turney -- The Foot of Clive: The Collective in Quarantine / Stefan Welz -- Economy, Seduction, Transumption: 'Boris' and G. / John Bowen -- Prominent Absences: John Berger's Benjaminian Storytelling / Milosz Wojtyna -- Spatiotemporal Gymnastics in John Berger's Into Their Labours / Marta Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna -- Refuting a Sentence, or: How John Berger Refutes Himself / Bartosz Lutostanski -- John Berger's Endless Text: Aesthetics of the Fragment, the Nouveau Roman, and Storytelling / Monika Szuba -- The Body of the Text: To the Wedding, From A to X, and the Corporeality of John Berger's Later Fiction / Ralf Hertel -- John Berger: Epistolarity and a Life in Letters / Rachel Bower -- 2. Non-fiction -- 'As if it were the only one': The Story of John Berger's Booker Prize for G. / Tom Overton -- Surveying and Being Surveyed: Gender Aspects in John Berger's Ways of Seeing / Charlotte Kent -- Country Man, Urban Migrant: A Seventh Man / Pilar Sanchez Calle -- 'This is a correct decision': An Analysis of Some Aspects of Style in John Berger's Essays / David Malcolm -- 3. On Screen -- 'An Irresponsible flow of images': Berger, Clark, and the Art of Television, 1958-1988 / Jonathan Conlin -- John Berger and the Cinema / Joshua Sperling -- Invisible Cinema: John Berger, Play Me Something, and Walk Me Home / Timothy Neat -- Notes on Contributers.
Series:
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; volume 188
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