British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s

ISBN-13: 9781474436205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Kaye Mitchell;Nonia Williams

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Introduction: ‘The avant-garde must not be romanticized. The avant-garde must not be dismissed’, Kaye Mitchell; 1. Muriel Spark and the possibility of popular experiment, Marina McKay; 2. B.S. Johnson: the book as dynamic object’, Joseph Darlington; 3. Giles Gordon: Beyond the Words, and beyond the language of experimentalism, David Hucklesby; 4. Brigid Brophy’s aestheticism: the camp anti-novel, Len Gutkin; 5. Alexander Trocchi: Man at leisure, Christopher Webb; 6. Anna Kavan: Pursuing the ‘in-between reality’ hidden by the ‘ordinary surface of things’, Hannah Van Hove; 7. J.G. Ballard: Visuality and the novels of the near future, Natalie Ferris; 8. Ann Quin: ‘infuriating’ experiments?, Nonia Williams; 9. Contradiction, Incongruity and Fragmentation: Political and Avant-Garde Compromise in the Work of Alan Burns, Kieran Devaney; 10. Eva Figes: tracing the survival of a ‘poetry of the inarticulate’, Chris Clarke; 11. Christine Brooke-Rose: the development of experiment, Stephanie Jones; 12. Aspirations inevitably failing: hope and negativity in Rayner Heppenstall’s experimental fiction of the 1960s, Philip Tew; 13. Maureen Duffy: the politics of experimental fiction, Eveline Kilian; 14. Not the Last Word on the Sixties Avant Garde: An Afterword, Glyn White; Index.