Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence

ISBN-13: 9781349472505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 184 str.

A. Johnson

Opis

Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new understanding of the interpenetration of literary and visual culture in the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Influence, Image, and the Movement of Time 2. Sun-Worship and the Idolatry of Images: Derek Jarman, Philip Glass, and The Swimming-Pool Library 3. 'The Poets of Our Time': Lateness and Pedagogical Influence in The Folding Star 4. 'Almost Always': Influence, Ecstasy, and Architectural Imagination in The Spel 5. Spitting Images: Image, Text, and the Popular Press in The Line of Beauty 6. 'The Latter Days Sortes Virgilianae': Confirmation Bias and the Image of the Poet in The Stranger's Child Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

Allan Johnson is Assistant Professor in English at City University of Hong Kong. He has previously taught at Birkbeck, University of London and the University of Leeds.