Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 254 Seiten).
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
978-1-350-12504-9
Content:
"Exploring the archives of the Man Booker prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes ? including notebooks, drafts, typescripts and publishing correspondence ? this book is an extraordinary in-depth study of the creative practice of a major contemporary novelist. In Julian Barnes from the Margins , Vanessa Guignery charts the genesis and publication history of all of Barnes's major novels, from his debut with Metroland , through Flaubert's Parrot and A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters to The Sense of an Ending."--
Note:
Introduction -- Chapter One. Metroland : everything that got away -- 1. Faltering starts -- 2. 'Petty Gripes' and 'Oua, oua, oua' -- 3. The Death Chapter -- 4. Return to Metroland Chapter Two. The case for -- The case against -- 1. Reviewing and being reviewed -- 2. The case of Before She Met Me -- a. Julian Barnes's reButs to Hermione Lee's Buts -- b. Finding the right title -- Chapter Three. A chronology (of sorts) -- Chapter Four. Flaubert's Parrot from ignition to composition -- 1. Flaubert Stories -- 2. The fictional narrator -- Chapter Five. The Barnes apocrypha -- 1. A Literary Guide to Oxford : the itinerary of a book that was never published -- 2. The unwritten books which tantalize -- Chapter Six. Staring at the Sun : a novel of forking roots and paths -- 1. Multiple roots and titles -- 2. Early starts -- Chapter Seven. Fragments of stories: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters -- 1. Planning, naming and arranging chapters -- 2. Not so simple stories -- 3. 'Parenthesis' -- 4. With a little help from my friends -- Chapter Eight. The Porcupine in the making: writer and translator -- 1. An outsider's view -- 2. Is and is not -- 3. The ending of the novel -- 4. The libel risks -- Chapter Nine. A dictionary of Julian Barnes -- Chapter Ten. Arthur & George : beginnings and endings -- 1. First and final steps -- 2. The blind spots of research -- 3. The art of beginning -- 4. Finding a JB title -- 5. Working out tenses -- Chapter Eleven. Nothing to Be Frightened Of as an echo chamber -- 1. The obsession with death: from the early notebooks to Nothing to Be Frightened Of -- 2. This is not an autobiography -- 3. Fictionalising memory in The Only Story -- Chapter Twelve. The Sense of an Ending : time in reverse -- 1. Prequels in real life -- 2. A sequel to Metroland? -- 3. Getting started: the title and the incipit -- 4. A denser text -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index. - Mode of access: World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-3501-2502-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-350-12501-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
1946- Barnes, Julian
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350125049
URL:
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