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 langu...

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1. Verfasser:	Hodgson, Andrew Robert 1988- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2019
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1945-1975 Experimenteller Roman Französisch Englisch Experimental fiction, English / 20th century / History and criticism Experimental fiction, French / 20th century / History and criticism
Online-Zugang:	UBM01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	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 "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"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (208 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781350076877 9781350076853
DOI:	10.5040/9781350076877