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British avant-garde fiction of the 1960s /
This collection 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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: 'The avant-garde must not be romanticized. The avant-garde must not be dismissed'
- Chapter1 Muriel Spark and the Possibility of Popular Experiment
- Chapter 2 B.S. Johnson: The Book as Dynamic Object
- Chapter 3 Giles Gordon: Beyond the Words and Beyond the Language of Experimentalism
- Chapter 4 Brigid Brophy's Aestheticism: The Camp Anti-Novel
- Chapter 5 Alexander Trocchi: Man at Leisure
- Chapter 6 Anna Kavan: Pursuing the 'in-between reality' Hidden by the 'ordinary surface of things'
- Chapter 7 J.G. Ballard: Visuality and the Novels of the Near Future
- Chapter 8 Ann Quin: 'infuriating' Experiments?
- Chapter 9 Contradiction, Incongruity and Fragmentation: Political and Avant-Garde Compromise in the Work of Alan Burns
- Chapter 10 Eva Figes: Tracing the Survival of a 'Poetry of the Inarticulate'
- Chapter 11 Christine Brooke-Rose: The Development of Experiment
- Chapter 12 Aspirations Inevitably Failing: Hope and Negativity in Rayner Heppenstall's Experimental Fiction of the 1960s
- Chapter 13 Maureen Duffy: The Politics of Experimental Fiction
- Chapter 14 Not the Last Word on the Sixties Avant-Garde: An Afterword
- Notes on Contributors
- Index