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B.S. Johnson: A Critical Reading

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This study introduces the prose writing of B.S. Johnson, the quintessentially lost or neglected British novelist. Famously he rejected fiction as lies. Celebrated in his short lifetime , Johnson both adapts the experimentalism of the nouveau roman, and commits his narratives to a plural and chaotic notion of truth as a literary critique. Using appropriate theorists and philosophers, Philip Tew contextualizes Johnson's works and advances a reading that sustains the novelist's importance and redeems the relevance of the socio-critical aspects of his oeuvre.

Language: English

Pages: 274

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Release: December 07, 2001

ISBN: 0719056268

ISBN 13: 9780719056260

B.S. Johnson: A Critical Reading

3/5 ( ratings)

This study introduces the prose writing of B.S. Johnson, the quintessentially lost or neglected British novelist. Famously he rejected fiction as lies. Celebrated in his short lifetime , Johnson both adapts the experimentalism of the nouveau roman, and commits his narratives to a plural and chaotic notion of truth as a literary critique. Using appropriate theorists and philosophers, Philip Tew contextualizes Johnson's works and advances a reading that sustains the novelist's importance and redeems the relevance of the socio-critical aspects of his oeuvre.

Language: English

Pages: 274

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Release: December 07, 2001

ISBN: 0719056268

ISBN 13: 9780719056260

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