Neo-avant-gardes : post-war literary experiments across borders / edited by Bart Vervaeck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vervaeck, Bart, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Experimental--History and criticism.

Literature, Experimental.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

What are the forms in which the avant-garde returns after the Second World War? How does the literary avant-garde re-invent itself without losing its affinity with historical avant-garde currents such as surrealism and futurism? This book explores the international relevance of the concept of neo-avant-garde for the study of post-war literary innovations covering North American, Latin American, Caribbean, Austrian, French, British, Belgian, Dutch and German cases. Each of the twenty-one newly commissioned chapters combines theoretical reflection with practical analysis. Together, they provide a multi-faceted account of diverse group and trends, such as the New Realists, Black Arts Movement, Labris and the Vienna Group. They also focus on a wide range of authors, like Pierre Alferi, Amiri Baraka, Konrad Bayer, Kamau Brathwaite and Anna Kavan.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Neo-Avant-Garde, Why Bother?

Part I: Concepts, Genres and Techniques

1. Theodor Adorno, Peter Bürger and Oswald Wiener, or How to Apply Neo-Avant-Garde Theory to Neo-Avant-Garde Texts

2. Despite Straight Lines: Josef Albers, Concrete Poetry and Temporal Relations

3. Multi-faceted Images of Reality: Montage in Documentary Literature from the Long 1960s

4. Foundists and Erasurists

5. In Praise of Hybrid Purity: Nomadism and Pierre Joris

6. Enigmatic and Revealing: Lucienne Stassaert’s Neo-Avant-Garde Short Story Collection Verhalen van de jonkvrouw met de spade (1964)

7. Sound Poetry in France: A Neo-Avant-Garde?

8. Surrealism Old and New in Three Generations of Prose Poets: The Case of the Low Countries

9. Uneven Developments: Bande Dessinée, Rear-Guard and Neo-Avant-Gardes

10. Differentiating the Return of the Real: Towards an Interdisciplinary Concept of the Neo-Avant-Garde

Part II: Movements and Authors

11. ‘A riot is the language of the unheard’: Neo-Avant-Garde Poetic Uprisings in the Era of the Black Arts Movement

12. The Neo-Avant-Garde in Latin America: The Case of Mario Bellatin

13. Sycorax’ Revenge: Kamau Brathwaite and a Caribbean Version of the Neo-Avant-Garde

14. ‘Belonging nowhere?’: Labelling British Experimental Women’s Fiction of the Long Sixties

15. Constraint and Rule: Oulipo and the Neos

16. A Third Term? Avant-Garde on the Fence in France Since the 1990s

17. The Austrian Post-War Anomaly: Konrad Bayer’s Montage the head of vitus bering and the Category of the ‘New’

18. Surrealism in Post-War Vienna

19. Images of the Real: Generic and Medial Hybridity in Peter Weiss’s The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

20. From Zero to Neo: Ivo Michiels, Book Alpha and the Neo-Avant-Garde

21. Flemish Hybridity: The Magazine Labris (1962–73) and the Neo-Avant-Garde

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Vervaeck, Bart Neo-Avant-Gardes

ISBN:

1-4744-8612-6

1-3995-0959-4

1-4744-8611-8

OCLC:

1289817434