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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hodgson, Andrew (1988-....)
Titre(s) : The post-war experimental novel [Texte imprimé] : British and French fiction, 1945-75 / Andrew Hodgson
Publication : London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury academic, 2020
Description matérielle : xi, 208 pages ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Roman expérimental anglais -- 1945-1990
Roman expérimental français -- 1945-1990
Littérature comparée -- Anglaise et française
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350076846. - ISBN 1350076848. - ISBN 9781350076860 (erroné). - ISBN 9781350076853
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45868153k
Notice n° :
FRBNF45868153
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
