British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s / / Kaye Mitchell, Nonia Williams.
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, resear...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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