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Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel: Oblique Strategies by Julia Jordan (Hardcover, 2020)

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ISBN-13: 9780198857280, 978-0198857280. These novels are interested in the fleeting and the fugitive, in discontinuity and shock. Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel Oblique Strategies. Format: Hardback.

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This volume takes as its subject the British experimental or avant-garde novel of the decades following the immediately postwar period in Britain, from the nineteen-fifties to the mid-seventies, which transformed literary culture, provoking extremes both of praise and castigation. The experimental novel came to be defined by certain formal effects; they tend to be non-linear, jump-cut or collaged, or typographically eccentric. Yet this book also proposes an understanding of their particular strain of late modernism as constituted by a thematic and philosophical concern with accident, error, and indeterminacy. The book rethinks the resurgence of the literary avant-garde--including the writers Christine Brooke-Rose, B. S. Johnson, and Ann Quin--that occurred in these decades, and attempt to explain its implications for the twentieth-century history of the novel.