| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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' |
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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 |
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Chapter 14 Not the Last Word on the Sixties Avant-Garde: An Afterword -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Experimental fiction, English -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
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English fiction
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Experimental fiction, English
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mitchell, Kaye, editor
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Williams, Nonia, editor
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| ISBN |
9781474436212 |
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1474436218 |
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