Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel write by Julia Jordan. This book was released on 2020-03-24. Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the decades following the immediately postwar period in Britain, a loose grouping of experimental writers that included Alan Burns, Christine Brooke-Rose, B. S. Johnson, and Ann Quin worked against the dominance, as they saw it, of the realist novel of the literary mainstream. Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel reassesses the experimentalism versus realism debates of the period, and finds a body of work engaged with, rather than merely antagonistic towards, the literary culture it sought to renovate. Charting these engagements, it shows how they have significance not just for our understanding of these decades but for the broader movement of the novel through the century. This volume takes some of the claims made about experimental fiction—that it is unreadable, nonlinear, elliptical, errant, plotless—and reimagines these descriptors as historically inscribed tendencies that express the period's investment in the idea of the accidental. These novels are interested in the fleeting and the fugitive, in discontinuity and shock. The experimental novel cultivates an interest in methods of representation that are oblique: attempting to conjure the world at an angle, or in the rear-view mirror; by ellipsis or evasion. These concepts—error, indeterminacy, uncertainty, accident—all bear a relation to that which evades or resists interpretation and meaning. Asking what are the wider political, ethical, and philosophical correlates of this incommensurability, Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel reads experimental literature in this light, as suffused with anxiety about its adequacy in the light of its status as necessarily imitative and derivative, and therefore redolent of the forms of not-knowing and uncertainty that mark late modernism more generally.
Late Modernism and the Avant-garde British Novel
Late Modernism and the Avant-garde British Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Late Modernism and the Avant-garde British Novel write by Julia Jordan (Lecturer in modern English literature). This book was released on 2020. Late Modernism and the Avant-garde British Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the experimental novel of the postwar period in Britain that rethinks the resurgence of the literary avant-garde that occurred in these decades and explains its implications for the history of the novel and late modernism more broadly.
British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s
British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s write by Mitchell Kaye Mitchell. This book was released on 2019-01-22. British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Extinct Scene
The Extinct Scene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Extinct Scene write by Thomas S. Davis. This book was released on 2015-12-08. The Extinct Scene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical disorder. The Extinct Scene reads a range of mid-century texts, films, and phenomena that reflect the decline of the British Empire and seismic shifts in the global political order. Davis follows the rise of documentary film culture and the British Documentary Film Movement, especially the work of John Grierson, Humphrey Jennings, and Basil Wright. He then considers the influence of late modernist periodical culture on social attitudes and customs, and presents original analyses of novels by Virginia Woolf, Christopher Isherwood, and Colin MacInnes; the interwar travel narratives of W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell; the wartime gothic fiction of Elizabeth Bowen; the poetry of H. D.; the sketches of Henry Moore; and the postimperial Anglophone Caribbean works of Vic Reid, Sam Selvon, and George Lamming. By considering this group of writers and artists, Davis recasts late modernism as an art of scale: by detailing the particulars of everyday life, these figures could better project large-scale geopolitical events and crises.
Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-garde
Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-garde - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-garde write by Faith Binckes. This book was released on 2010-05-20. Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-garde available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 2000.
