British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s

Media type: E-Book

Title: British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘The avant-garde must not be romanticized. The avant-garde must not be dismissed’
Contributors
1. Muriel Spark and the Possibility of Popular Experiment
2. B. S. Johnson: The Book as Dynamic Object
3. Giles Gordon: Beyond the Words and Beyond the Language of Experimentalism
4. Brigid Brophy’s Aestheticism: The Camp Anti-Novel
5. Alexander Trocchi: Man at Leisure
6. Anna Kavan: Pursuing the ‘in-between reality’ Hidden by the ‘ordinary surface of things’
7. J. G. Ballard: Visuality and the Novels of the Near Future
8. Ann Quin: ‘infuriating’ Experiments?
9. Contradiction, Incongruity and Fragmentation: Political and Avant-Garde Compromise in the Work of Alan Burns
10. Eva Figes: Tracing the Survival of a ‘Poetry of the Inarticulate’
11. Christine Brooke-Rose: The Development of Experiment
12. Aspirations Inevitably Failing: Hope and Negativity in Rayner Heppenstall’s Experimental Fiction of the 1960s
13. Maureen Duffy: The Politics of Experimental Fiction
14. Not the Last Word on the Sixties Avant-Garde: An Afterword
Notes on Contributors
Index

Contributor: Mitchell, Kaye [Author]; Clarke, Chris [Contributor]; Darlington, Joseph [Contributor]; Devaney, Kieran [Contributor]; Ferris, Natalie [Contributor]; Gutkin, Len [Contributor]; Hove, Hannah [Contributor]; Hucklesby, David [Contributor]; Jones, Stephanie [Contributor]; Kilian, Eveline [Contributor]; MacKay, Marina [Contributor]; Mitchell, Kaye [Contributor]; Tew, Philip [Contributor]; Webb, Christopher [Contributor]; White, Glyn [Contributor]; Williams, Nonia [Author]; Williams, Nonia [Contributor]

Published: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.); 4 B/W illustrations

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474436212

ISBN: 9781474436212

Identifier:

RVK notation: HN 1301 : Sonstige Gattungen

Keywords: Literary Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist

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Footnote: In English

Description: 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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