The avant-postman : experiment in anglophone and francophone fiction in the wake of James Joyce /
The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing in France, Great Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce's "revolution of the word" in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines through the work of mor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Prague, Czech Republic :
Karolinum Press,
2023.
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| Summary: | The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing in France, Great Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce's "revolution of the word" in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines through the work of more than fifty writers up to the present, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, B. S. Johnson, William Burroughs, Christine Brooke-Rose, Georges Perec, Kathy Acker, Iain Sinclair, Hélène Cixous, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others. Centering the exploration around five writing strategies employed by Joyce-narrative parallax, stylistic metempsychosis, concrete writing, forgery, and neologizing the logos--the book reveals the striking continuities and developments from Joyce's day to our own. |
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| Physical Description: | 510 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788024649375 8024649373 |