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below I will offer a cartography of B.S. Johnson’s early work and its origins, but my initial starting point will not feature such experiential and literary influences (some highly personal in nature), which I will move toward later. Rather this mapping starts with an example of the writer’s aesthetic doubts. This may help explain or at least contextualise the concepts concerning the form and function of the novel that initially animated his aesthetic exploration, and about which later he seemed to harbour some uncertainties.
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Tew, P. (2014). Early Influences and Aesthetic Emergence: Travelling People (1961), Albert Angelo (1964), Trawl (1966) and The Unfortunates (1969). In: Jordan, J., Ryle, M. (eds) B. S. Johnson and Post-War Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349552_2
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