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Explores the trailblazing work of the British literary avant-garde of the 1960s
This 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
Contents
Introduction: 'The avant-garde must not be romanticized. The avant-garde must not be dismissed', Kaye Mitchell
Muriel Spark and the possibility of popular experiment, Marina McKay
B.S. Johnson: the book as dynamic object', Joseph Darlington
Giles Gordon: Beyond the Words, and beyond the language of experimentalism, David Hucklesby
Brigid Brophy's aestheticism: the camp anti-novel, Len Gutkin
Alexander Trocchi: Man at leisure, Christopher Webb
Open Access: Anna Kavan: Pursuing the 'in-between reality' hidden by the 'ordinary surface of things', Hannah Van Hove
J.G. Ballard: Visuality and the novels of the near future, Natalie Ferris
Ann Quin: 'infuriating' experiments?, Nonia Williams
Contradiction, Incongruity and Fragmentation: Political and Avant-Garde Compromise in the Work of Alan Burns, Kieran Devaney
Eva Figes: tracing the survival of a 'poetry of the inarticulate', Chris Clarke
Christine Brooke-Rose: the development of experiment, Stephanie Jones
Aspirations inevitably failing: hope and negativity in Rayner Heppenstall's experimental fiction of the 1960s, Philip Tew
Maureen Duffy: the politics of experimental fiction, Eveline Kilian
Not the Last Word on the Sixties Avant Garde: An Afterword, Glyn White
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