On John Berger

Telling Stories
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30612-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 188, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

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 Sánchez Calle, Joshua Sperling, Monika Szuba, Richard Turney, Stefan Welz, Milosz Wojtyna

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hertel, Ralf

Malcolm, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 SÁNCHEZ 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.