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almafu_9960695454202883
Format:
1 online resource (280 p.) :
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4 B/W illustrations
ISBN:
9781474436212
Content:
Explores the trailblazing work of the British literary avant-garde of the 1960sThis collection showcases the liveliness of British avant-garde fiction of the 1960s, which is diverse in its aesthetic practices and (sometimes) divided in its politics. It brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial – and crucially overlooked – period of British literary history.Via detailed readings of authors such as Ann Quin, B.S. Johnson, Alexander Trocchi, Maureen Duffy, Alan Burns, Christine Brooke-Rose and many others, the contributors reveal the diversity of material produced in this period and trace the complex relations of influence and indebtedness between the 60s avant-garde, earlier modernisms and later postmodern writing. The volume shows that the 1960s is an even more vibrant period of literary experiment in Britain than might previously have been supposed – and that the avant-garde fiction produced then rewards our renewed attention to it.Key Features:Provides much-needed critical analyses of the work of 60s avant-garde writers Offers focused essays – each presents one author in their cultural/critical/historical contexts – by experts in the fieldRecuperates a lost decade in British literature and thus fills a vital gap in literary history, between late modernism and early postmodernismResponds to burgeoning critical and popular interest in authors such as Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin, and B.S. Johnson, and to a widespread interest in experimental and innovative writing more generally
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction: ‘The avant-garde must not be romanticized. The avant-garde must not be dismissed’ --
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Contributors --
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1. Muriel Spark and the Possibility of Popular Experiment --
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2. B. S. Johnson: The Book as Dynamic Object --
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3. Giles Gordon: Beyond the Words and Beyond the Language of Experimentalism --
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4. Brigid Brophy’s Aestheticism: The Camp Anti-Novel --
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5. Alexander Trocchi: Man at Leisure --
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6. Anna Kavan: Pursuing the ‘in-between reality’ Hidden by the ‘ordinary surface of things’ --
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7. J. G. Ballard: Visuality and the Novels of the Near Future --
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8. Ann Quin: ‘infuriating’ Experiments? --
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9. Contradiction, Incongruity and Fragmentation: Political and Avant-Garde Compromise in the Work of Alan Burns --
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10. Eva Figes: Tracing the Survival of a ‘Poetry of the Inarticulate’ --
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11. Christine Brooke-Rose: The Development of Experiment --
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12. Aspirations Inevitably Failing: Hope and Negativity in Rayner Heppenstall’s Experimental Fiction of the 1960s --
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13. Maureen Duffy: The Politics of Experimental Fiction --
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14. Not the Last Word on the Sixties Avant-Garde: An Afterword --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781474436212
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474436212
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474436212
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474436212
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474436212
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