On John Berger
Telling Stories
Published on 15. October 2015
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-90-04-30612-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Contributors: Marta Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna, John Bowen, Rachel Bower, Jonathan Conlin, Ralf Hertel, Charlotte Kent, Bartosz Lutostanski, David Malcolm, Timothy Neat, Tom Overton, Pilar Sanchez Calle, Joshua Sperling, Monika Szuba, Richard Turney, Stefan Welz, Milosz Wojtyna
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.
Contributors: Marta Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna, John Bowen, Rachel Bower, Jonathan Conlin, Ralf Hertel, Charlotte Kent, Bartosz Lutostanski, David Malcolm, Timothy Neat, Tom Overton, Pilar Sanchez Calle, Joshua Sperling, Monika Szuba, Richard Turney, Stefan Welz, Milosz Wojtyna
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-30612-7 (9789004306127)
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Persons
RALF HERTEL, Professor of English Literature at the University of Trier, is author of Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s (2005) and co-editor of
Performing National Identity: Anglo-Italian Cultural Encounters (2008).
DAVID MALCOLM is a professor of English Literature at the University of Gdansk. He is author and co-author of books on contemporary British and Irish fiction.
Performing National Identity: Anglo-Italian Cultural Encounters (2008).
DAVID MALCOLM is a professor of English Literature at the University of Gdansk. He is author and co-author of books on contemporary British and Irish fiction.
Content
Acknowledgements
RALF HERTEL AND DAVID MALCOLM
Introduction: On John Berger: Telling Stories
1. Fiction
RICHARD TURNEY
'Naturally, I have changed most of the names': The Johns of A Painter of Our Time
STEFAN WELZ
The Foot of Clive: The Collective in Quarantine
JOHN BOWEN
Economy, Seduction, Transumption: 'Boris' and G.
MILOSZ WOJTYNA
Prominent Absences: John Berger's Benjaminian Storytelling
MARTA ALEKSANDROWICZ-WOJTYNA
Spatiotemporal Gymnastics in John Berger's Into Their Labours
BARTOSZ LUTOSTANSKI
Refuting a Sentence, or: How John Berger Refutes Himself
MONIKA SZUBA
John Berger's Endless Text: Aesthetics of the Fragment, the Nouveau Roman, and Storytelling
RALF HERTEL
The Body of the Text: To the Wedding, From A to X, and the Corporeality of John Berger's Later Fiction
RACHEL BOWER
John Berger: Epistolarity and a Life in Letters
2. Non-fiction
TOM OVERTON
'As if it were the only one': The Story of John Berger's Booker Prize for G.
CHARLOTTE KENT
Surveying and Being Surveyed: Gender Aspects in John Berger's Ways of Seeing
PILAR SANCHEZ CALLE
Country Man, Urban Migrant: A Seventh Man
DAVID MALCOLM
'This is a correct decision': An Analysis of Some Aspects of Style in John Berger's Essays
3. On Screen
JONATHAN CONLIN
'An irresponsible flow of images': Berger, Clark, and the Art of Television, 1958-1988
JOSHUA SPERLING
John Berger and the Cinema
TIMOTHY NEAT
Invisible Cinema: John Berger, Play Me Something, and Walk Me Home
Notes on Contributors
RALF HERTEL AND DAVID MALCOLM
Introduction: On John Berger: Telling Stories
1. Fiction
RICHARD TURNEY
'Naturally, I have changed most of the names': The Johns of A Painter of Our Time
STEFAN WELZ
The Foot of Clive: The Collective in Quarantine
JOHN BOWEN
Economy, Seduction, Transumption: 'Boris' and G.
MILOSZ WOJTYNA
Prominent Absences: John Berger's Benjaminian Storytelling
MARTA ALEKSANDROWICZ-WOJTYNA
Spatiotemporal Gymnastics in John Berger's Into Their Labours
BARTOSZ LUTOSTANSKI
Refuting a Sentence, or: How John Berger Refutes Himself
MONIKA SZUBA
John Berger's Endless Text: Aesthetics of the Fragment, the Nouveau Roman, and Storytelling
RALF HERTEL
The Body of the Text: To the Wedding, From A to X, and the Corporeality of John Berger's Later Fiction
RACHEL BOWER
John Berger: Epistolarity and a Life in Letters
2. Non-fiction
TOM OVERTON
'As if it were the only one': The Story of John Berger's Booker Prize for G.
CHARLOTTE KENT
Surveying and Being Surveyed: Gender Aspects in John Berger's Ways of Seeing
PILAR SANCHEZ CALLE
Country Man, Urban Migrant: A Seventh Man
DAVID MALCOLM
'This is a correct decision': An Analysis of Some Aspects of Style in John Berger's Essays
3. On Screen
JONATHAN CONLIN
'An irresponsible flow of images': Berger, Clark, and the Art of Television, 1958-1988
JOSHUA SPERLING
John Berger and the Cinema
TIMOTHY NEAT
Invisible Cinema: John Berger, Play Me Something, and Walk Me Home
Notes on Contributors