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04001aam a2200397 i 4500 001 3ED084F8072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 190920s2020 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198857280 020 $a 0198857284 035 $a (OCoLC)1119759580 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d GZN $d OCLCA $d UCIDS $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR478.M6 $b J67 2020 082 04 $a 820.9112 $2 23 100 1 $a Jordan, Julia, $d 1978- $e author. 245 10 $a Late modernism and the avant-garde British novel : $b oblique strategies / $c Julia Jordan. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a viii, 245 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a In the decades following the immediately postwar period in Britain, a loose grouping of experimental writers that included Alan Burns, Christine Brooke-Rose, B.S. Johnson, and Ann Quin worked against the dominance, as they saw it, of the realist novel of the literary mainstream. Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel reassesses the experimentalism versus realism debates of the period, and finds a body of work engaged with, rather than merely antagonistic towards, the literary culture it sought to renovate. Charting these engagements, it shows how they have significance not just for our understanding of these decades but for the broader movement of the novel through the century. 0This volume takes some of the claims made about experimental fiction-that it is unreadable, nonlinear, elliptical, errant, plotless-and reimagines these descriptors as historically inscribed tendencies that express the period's investment in the idea of the accidental. These novels are interested in the fleeting and the fugitive, in discontinuity and shock. The experimental novel cultivates an interest in methods of representation that are oblique: attempting to conjure the world at an angle, or in the rear-view mirror; by ellipsis or evasion. These concepts-error, indeterminacy, uncertainty, accident-all bear a relation to that which evades or resists interpretation and meaning. Asking what are the wider political, ethical, and philosophical correlates of this incommensurability, Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel reads experimental literature in this light, as suffused with anxiety about its adequacy in the light of its status as necessarily imitative and derivative, and therefore redolent of the forms of not-knowing and uncertainty that mark late modernism more generally. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g VII. $g pt. I $t Alexander Trocchi, Tom McCarthy, and Late, Late Modernism. $g I. $t Accident as Event: Accidents, Atoms, and Late Modernist Experiment -- $g II. $t Accident as Form: Strategies of Surprise -- $g III. $t Accident as Critique: The Politics of Form -- $g pt. II $t ERRANCY, UNCERTAINTY, INDETERMINACY -- $g IV. $t Realism, Truth, and Error in the Writing of B.S. Johnson -- $g V. $t Accidental Subjects, or Ann Quin's Literature of Possibility -- $g VI. $t Indeterminate Brooke-Rose -- $g pt. III $t OBLIQUE LATE(R) MODERNISM -- $g VII. $t Alexander Trocchi, Tom McCarthy, and Late, Late Modernism. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a British literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 650 0 $a Experimental fiction, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a British literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00839082 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Experimental fiction, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918436 650 7 $a Modernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024455 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032652.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3ED084F8072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search