Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 208 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781350076877
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9781350076853
Inhalt:
"Delving into how the traumatic experience of the Second World War formed - or perhaps malformed - the post-war experimental novel, this book explores how the symbolic violence of post-war normalization warped societies' perception of reality. Andrew Hodgson explores how the novel was used by authors to attempt to communicate in such a climate, building a memorial space that has been omitted from literatures and societies of the post-war period. Hodgson investigates this space as it is portrayed in experimental modern British and French fiction, considering themes of amnesia, myopia, delusion and dementia. Such themes are constantly referred back to and posit in narrative a motive for the very broken forms these books often take - books in boxes; of spare pages to be shuffled at the reader's will; with holes in pages; missing whole sections of the alphabet; or books written and then entirely scrubbed out in smudged black ink. Covering the works of B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Georges Perec, Roland Topor, Raymond Queneau and others, Andrew Hodgson shows that there is method to the madness of experimental fiction and legitimizes the form as a prominent presence within a wider literary and historical movement in European and American avant-garde literatures"--Bloomsbury Publishing
Inhalt:
Partition One - Motive: the sense something is missing: 1.1 A critical moment - opening a space of discourse ; 1.2 On the literature of this study ; 1.3 Conflicts in cultural production ; 1.4 Historical contexts -- Partition Two - Diagnoses: the confused narrative of the post-war human: 2.1 The sense something is missing ; 2.2 Communal supplication, individual terraforming -- Partition Three - Treatment: breaking down within the horizon of the real: 3.1 Creating space in text ; 3.2 Babel, babble, xenoglossia and private language ; 3.3 Cut, shuffle, re-align, re-define -- Notes -- Index.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350076846
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hodgson, Andrew Robert, 1988 - The post-war experimental novel London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 ISBN 9781350076846
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
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Französisch
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Experimenteller Roman
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Geschichte 1945-1975
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350076877
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