Late modernism and the avant-garde British novel : oblique strategies

Late modernism and the avant-garde British novel : oblique strategies / Julia Jordan.

A study of the experimental novel of the postwar period in Britain that rethinks the resurgence of the literary avant-garde that occurred in these decades and explains its implications for the history of the novel and late modernism more broadly.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jordan, Julia (Lecturer in modern English literature) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1900-1999
British literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Experimental fiction, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
British literature
English fiction
Experimental fiction, English
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Oblique strategies and experimental fictions
  • Accident as event: accidents, atoms, and late modernist experiment
  • Accident as form: strategies of surprise
  • Accident as critique: the politics of form
  • Realism, truth, and error in the writing of B.S. Johnson
  • Accidental subjects, or Ann Quin's literature of possibility
  • Indeterminate Brooke-Rose
  • Alexander Trocchi, Tom McCarthy, and late, late modernism.

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