Avant-Postman : experiment in anglophone and francophone fiction in the wake of James Joyce / David Vichnar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vichnar, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Joyce, James.

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (510 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Prague, Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, [2023]

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.

Contents:

COVER

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTE ON THE TEXT &amp

DEDICATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE NOVEL, EXPERIMENT, AND THE AVANT-GARDE

2. JOYCE THE AVANT-GARDIST: THE WAKE IN TRANSITION

3. TRANSITION IN THE WAKE: JOYCE THE TRANSITIONIST

4. JOYCEAN AVANT-GARDE: PARALLAX, METEMPS YCHOSIS,CONCRETISM, FORGERY, AND NEOLOGISM

5. JOYCEAN (?) TR ADITIONS: HAYMAN, ADAMS,WERNER, LEVITT

6. POST-JOYCE

1. JOYCE DE NOUVEAU: WITHIN OR BEHIND OR BEYOND OR ABOVE THE NEW NOVEL, 1947-67

1.1 "EQUIVALENT IMAGES, ANALOGOUS SENS ATIONS": NATHALIE SARRAUTE

1.2 "THE ADDITIONAL STEP IN SUBVERTING THE S YSTEM": ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET

1.3 "FOREVER ADVANCING ON SHIFTINGS ANDS": CLAUDE SIMON

1.4 "ANAMNESIS OF LEITMOTIFS": ROBERT PINGET

1.5 "TO F AIL THIS WAY, IN A SUPERHUMAN A TTEMPT": CLAUDE MAURIAC

1.6 "DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO GET THE MOST OUT OF IT": MICHEL BUTOR

2. "BUT HOW MANY HAVE FOLLOWED HIM?" JOYCE IN BRITAIN (1955-75)

2.1 "A HORROSHOW CRACK ON THE OOKO OR EARHOLE": ANTHONY BURGESS

2.2 "THE EINSTEIN OF THE NOVEL": B. S. JOHNSON

2.3 "THIS DIS TANCED TECHNIQUE OF WRITING FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS": ALAN BURNS

2.4 "THE VOYCE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, REJOICE WITH ME": BRIGID BROPHY

2.5 "A DEATH WISH AND A SENSE OF SIN": ANN QUIN

2.6 "WHO'S SHE WHEN SHE'S (NO T) AT HOME": CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE (1964-1975)

3. MAKING JOYCE "PART OF THE LANDSCAPE": THE AMERICAN LITERARY EXPERIMENT, 1953-1973

3.1 "A NEW MY THOLOGY FOR THE SP ACE A GE": WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

3.2 "THE SELF WHO COULD DO MORE": WILLIAM GADDIS

3.3 "THAT STYLE WHICH DELIBER ATELY EXHAUSTSITS POSSIBILITIES": JOHN BARTH

3.4 "NEVER CUT WHEN YOU CAN PASTE": WILLIAM H. GASS

3.5 "THE BOOK REMAINS PROBLEMATIC, UNEXHAUSTED": DONALD BARTHELME

3.6 "ORPHEUS PUTS DOWN HARP": THOMAS PYNCHON.

4. JOYCEAN OULIPO, OULIPIAN JOYCE: 1960-1978, BEFORE AND AFTER

4.1 THE JOYS OF CONSTRAINT AND POTENTIAL

4.2 "NOTHING LEFT TO CHANCE": RAYMOND QUENEAU

4.3 "A MAN OF LETTERS": GEORGES PEREC

4.4 "A PRE-MODERN, ENCYCLOPEDIC CAST OF MIND": HARRY MATHEWS

4.5 "THE BABEL EFFECT": JACQUES ROUBAUD

4.6 THE ANTICIPATORY PLAGIARIST

5. "THE CENTENARIAN STILL SEEMS AVANTGARDE": EXPERIMENT IN BRITISH FICTION, 1975-2005

5.0 "OF NARR ATIVE STYLES, THE DISSOL UTION OF CHARACTER": CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE, 1984-2006

5.1 "LIFE'S TOO SHORED TO EMBARK ON IT NOW": BRIAN W. ALDISS

5.2 "PACKED WITH MEANINGLESS LOCAL REFERENCE S": J. G. BALLARD

5.3 "A POLYGLOT BABBLE LIKE A SYMPHONIC EURO-LANGUAGE": ANGELA CARTER

5.4 "REALISM IS ANTI-ART": JEANETTE WINTERSON

5.5 "GREAT ART SHOULD NOT MOVE": ALASDAIR GRAY

5.6 "GRAFTING, EDITING: QUO TATIONS, CORRESPONDENCES": IAIN SINCLAIR

5.7 CONCLUSION: JOYCE EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE

6. "THE FUNNYMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR ERROR": JOYCE IN AMERICAN FICTION, 1973-1997

6.0 "'REALISM,' THE OPTICAL ILLUSION OF REALITY IN CAPITALIST THOUGHT": LANGUAGE POETRY

6.1 "THAT LEVEL OF ACTIVITY THAT REVEALS LIFE AS FICTION": RAYMOND FEDERMAN

6.2 "A NOVEL AS A CONCRETE STRUCTURE RATHER THAN AN ALLEGORY": RONALD SUKENICK

6.3 "ANOTHER AWARENESS, ANO THER ALPHABET": WALTER ABISH

6.4 "THE PARODYING PUNNING PRE-JOYCEAN CAKEWALK": ISHMAEL REED

6.5 "DOES LANGUAGE CONTROL LIKE MONEY?": KATHY ACKER

6.6 "THE JOYOUS HERESY THAT WILL NOT GO A WAY": GILBERT SORRENTINO

7. JOYCE AS SUCH / TEL QUEL JOYCE: 1960-1982, AND BEYOND

7.1 TEL QUEL'S "ENIGMATIC RESERVE"

7.2 "A CERTAIN TYPE OF EXCESS": JEAN-LOUIS HOUDEBINE

7.3 "DIS: YES - I.R.A.": MAURICE ROCHE

7.4 "AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THAT UNHEARD-OF PLACE": HÉLÈNE CIXOUS

7.5 "A SUBJECT ILLIMITABLE, NUMBERLESS": PHILIPPE SOLLERS.

7.6 "AN AVATAR OF CATHOLICITY": BEYOND TEL QUEL

8. POST-2000 CODA: CONCEPTUAL JOYCE

8.1. "MISINTERPRETING THE AVANT-GARDE": RACZYMOW, HADENGUE, LEVÉ

8.2 BREAKING "THE RE CURSIVEL OOPS OF REALISM": MITCHELL, HALL, HOME, MOORE

8.3 " CRUCIAL TO THE HEALTH OF THE ECOSYSTEM": AMERIKA, FOSTER WALLACE, GOLDSMITH, DANIELEWSKI, COHEN

CONCLUSION

1. "ÉCRIRE SON NOM COMME UN MEANDERTALE": COUNTERSIGNING JOYCE'S SIGNATURE

2. "RITUALS ORIGINATING IN PIETY" :CONSTRUCTING A JOYCEAN POSTMODERNISM

3. THE JOYCEAN ANTI-POSTMODERNISTS

4. "HIS PR ODUCERS ARE THEY NO T HIS CONSUMERS?" (FW 497.1-2) REVISI(TI)NG THE JOYCEAN TRADITION

5. GENEALOGIES OF PARALLAX, METEMPS YCHOSIS, TRACE, FORGERY, AND NEOLOGISM

6. "ONE MORE UNLOOKEDFOR CONCLUSION LEAPED A T" (FW 108.32): JOYCE'S BAROQUE ERROR

CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9788024649382

8024649381

OCLC:

1415897758