READING THE GRAPHIC SURFACE: THE PRESENCE OF THE BOOK IN PROSE FICTION -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: Reading the graphic surface -- Convention, redundancy,...
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READING THE GRAPHIC SURFACE: THE PRESENCE OF THE BOOK IN PROSE FICTION -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: Reading the graphic surface -- Convention, redundancy, noise -- Levels, space, metatexts -- Why defamiliarisation is not enough -- CHAPTER 2: The presence of the book -- The manuscript is not the real work -- Fixity -- Uniformity and individual reading -- The book as codex form -- CHAPTER 3: The graphic surface in theory -- The idealised text -- The linguistic model -- Writing -- Textual voice -- CHAPTER 4: Mimesis and the graphic surface: a critical blindspot -- Fiction, representation and mimesis -- The novel and mimesis -- Mimesis and postmodern criticism -- The world and the book -- A brief historical overview -- CHAPTER 5: 'If the gentle compositor would be so friendly': Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Watt -- Murphy (1938) -- Watt (1953) -- CHAPTER 6: 'The technological fact of the book': B. S. Johnson -- Travelling People (1963) -- Albert Angelo (1964) -- The Unfortunates (1969) -- CHAPTER 7: 'Some languages are more visible than others': Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru -- Thru (1975) -- CHAPTER 8: Alasdair Gray: Maker of books -- Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) -- CONCLUSION -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- Bray, Joe, Handley, Miriam and Henry, Anne C. (eds) (2000) Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaningon the Literary Page, Aldershot: AshgateCraig, Cairns (1999) The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination, Edinburgh:Edinburgh University PressMcGann, Jerome (1983) A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press -- Johnson
