Fiction

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

  • 2023-06-29
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2023-06-29

Type: BOOK

All accounts are to be settled, and they are – in the most alarming way. Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry, the last novel to be published in B S Johnson's lifetime, is undoubtedly his funniest.

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English fiction

Christie Malry's Own Double-entry

  • 1973
Christie Malry's Own Double-entry

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Type: BOOK

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Art

Description in Literature and Other Media

  • 2007-01
Description in Literature and Other Media

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2007-01

Type: BOOK

The following quotation from B. S. Johnson's experimental novel Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (1973), which can stand for many other examples, reflects the narrator's critical and sceptical attitude to the conventions of realism: An ...

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Narration (Rhetoric)

The Dynamics of Narrative Form

  • 2004
The Dynamics of Narrative Form

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2004

Type: BOOK

One early but typical example is the game played by the authorial narrator with the fictitious ( and real ) addressee in B.S. Johnson's Christie Malry's Own Double Entry : " In Christie Malry's Own Double Entry , the play with ...

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Fiction

Re-reading B. S. Johnson

  • 2007-07-13
Re-reading B. S. Johnson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-07-13

Type: BOOK

31st January: an intense (almost manic) period of writing to complete Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry to fulfil his deadline. February–March: 'Hafod a Hendref' is published in Planet. March: he completes Christie Malry's Own ...

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Literary Criticism

The Swarming Streets

  • 2004-01-01
The Swarming Streets

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-01-01

Type: BOOK

This becomes even more explicit in Christie Malry's Own Double - Entry ( 1973 ) . “ The protagonist of this novel indulges in what appear to be almost ridiculous outbursts , that are in fact critical and ideologicallyrevealing devices .

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Literary Criticism

Useless Activity

  • 2022-07-01
Useless Activity

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2022-07-01

Type: BOOK

It is not until Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry that Johnson's interest in work (and debt as a concept closely related to work) resurfaces as primary subject matter. Christie Malry draws from Johnson's own experiences as an accounts ...

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English fiction

British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s

  • 2019-01-22
British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-01-22

Type: BOOK

An expected reader response is implicated in the book's design.17 To present a concrete example, let us consider pages 176 and 177 of Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (Fig. 2.2). Across these pages Christie, the novel's eponymous ...

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Literary Criticism

British Literature in Transition, 1960–1980: Flower Power

  • 2018-12-20
British Literature in Transition, 1960–1980: Flower Power

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-12-20

Type: BOOK

Own Double-Entry(1973) would generally be accepted as occupying the far, experimental end. ... premise of the punningly titled Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry is that the central character devises a system of double-entry book-keeping ...

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