Reading the graphic surface: the presence of the book in prose fiction
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| adam_text | READING THE GRAPHIC SURFACE
THE PRESENCE OF THE BOOK IN PROSE FICTION
Glyn White
Manchester University Press
Manchester and New York
distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
CONTENTS
List of figures page vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
1 Reading the graphic surface 5
Convention, redundancy, noise 11
Levels, space, metatexts 14
Why defamiliarisation is not enough 17
2 The presence of the book 24
The manuscript is not the real work 24
Fixity 27
Uniformity and individual reading 30
The book as codex form 33
3 The graphic surface in theory 36
The idealised text 36
The linguistic model 39
Writing 40
Textual voice 44
4 Mimesis and the graphic surface: a critical blindspot 47
Fiction, representation and mimesis 47
The novel and mimesis 49
Mimesis and postmodern criticism 53
The world and the book 55
A brief historical overview 58
Contents
5 If the gentle compositor would be so friendly :
Samuel Beckett s Murphy and Watt 63
Murphy (1938) 64
Watt (1953) 72
6 The technological fact of the book : B S Johnson 84
Travelling People (1963) 87
Albert Angelo (1964) 93
The Unfortunates (1969) 114
7 Some languages are more visible than others :
Christine Brooke-Rose s Thru 120
Thru (1975) 122
8 Alasdair Gray: maker of books 160
Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) 162
Conclusion 206
Further reading 209
Index 211
vi
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READING THE GRAPHIC SURFACE
THE PRESENCE OF THE BOOK IN PROSE FICTION
Glyn White
Manchester University Press
Manchester and New York
distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
CONTENTS
List of figures page vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
1 Reading the graphic surface 5
Convention, redundancy, noise 11
Levels, space, metatexts 14
Why defamiliarisation is not enough 17
2 The presence of the book 24
The manuscript is not the real work 24
Fixity 27
Uniformity and individual reading 30
The book as codex form 33
3 The graphic surface in theory 36
The idealised text 36
The linguistic model 39
Writing 40
Textual voice 44
4 Mimesis and the graphic surface: a critical blindspot 47
Fiction, representation and mimesis 47
The novel and mimesis 49
Mimesis and postmodern criticism 53
The world and the book 55
A brief historical overview 58
Contents
5 'If the gentle compositor would be so friendly':
Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Watt 63
Murphy (1938) 64
Watt (1953) 72
6 The technological fact of the book': B S Johnson 84
Travelling People (1963) 87
Albert Angelo (1964) 93
The Unfortunates (1969) 114
7 'Some languages are more visible than others':
Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru 120
Thru (1975) 122
8 Alasdair Gray: maker of books 160
Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) 162
Conclusion 206
Further reading 209
Index 211
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