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The post-war experimental novel : British and French fiction, 1945-75
- Title
- The post-war experimental novel : British and French fiction, 1945-75 / Andrew Hodgson.
- Author
- Hodgson, Andrew
- Publication
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-793 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 208 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The Post-War Experimental Novel constructs a topography of how the traumatic experience of the Second World War formed - or perhaps malformed - the post-war experimental novel. Focusing on British and French fiction, this book critiques how the aesthetic of symbolic violence became an empathetic means of communicating and building a memorial space omitted by literatures and societies of the post-war period. Themes of amnesia, myopia, delusion and dementia are constantly referred back to and posit in narrative a motive for the very broken forms these books often take - books in boxes, of spare pages to be shuffles at the reader's will; with holes in pages; missing whole sections of the alphabet; or books written and then entirely scrubbed out in smudged black ink. Covering the works of B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Georges Perec, Roland Topor, Raymond Queneau and others, Andrew Hodgson shows that there is method to the madness of experimental fiction and further legitimises the form as a prominent presence within a wider literary and historical movement in European and American avant-garde literatures"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A critical moment -- opening a space of discourse -- On the literature of this study -- Conflicts in cultural production -- Historical contexts -- The sense something is missing -- Communal supplication, individual terraforming -- Creating space in text -- Babel, babble, xenoglossia and private language -- Cut, shuffle, re-align, re-define.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-793
- ISBN
- 9781350076846
- 1350076848
- LCCN
- 2019010098
- OCLC
- 1098218654
- Author
- Hodgson, Andrew, author.
- Title
- The post-war experimental novel : British and French fiction, 1945-75 / Andrew Hodgson.
- Publisher
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-793