The visual novel : Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin, Brigid Brophy / Hilary White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Hilary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooke-Rose, Christine, 1923-2012--Criticism and interpretation.

Brooke-Rose, Christine.

Quin, Ann, 1936-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Quin, Ann.

Brophy, Brigid, 1929-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Brophy, Brigid.

Aesthetics in literature.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Summary:

The Visual Novel situates the work of Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin and Brigid Brophy in relation to developments in the visual arts. Focusing on four forms recurring in the novels of these authors – frames, circuits, flesh and crossings – it outlines a trend of increasing visuality throughout the 1960s and 70s as Brooke-Rose, Quin and Brophy began to pose questions about literary and social forms, and the possible relationships between the two. With questions of form coming back into critical interest, Hilary White revisits the work of these decades to develop a new understanding of visuality as it relates to literary study and consider the potential for disrupting disciplinary space through writing and rewriting. As the first book to address the work of Brooke-Rose, Quin and Brophy in tandem, this volume asserts the continued relevance of these three important, but often overlooked, authors to discussions of visual form and (in)discipline in writing, aesthetics and politics.

Contents:

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Indroduction: Models of Indiscipline: The Necessity for Visuality / Narrative against Mastery

The Limits of Looking: Conceptualising the Frame in Brooke-Rose’s Out and Quin’s Berg

Closed Circuits / Open Legs: Constructions of Femininity in Brooke-Rose’s Between and Quin’s Three

Indisciplined Bodies: Brophy’s Flesh, Quin’s Passages, Soft Sculpture and the Gender of Material

New Rules of No Rules: Visual Structure and Visible Indiscipline in Brophy’s In Transit, Quin’s Tripticks and Brooke-Rose’s Thru

Conclusion: A Necessary Indiscipline

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781399506588

1399506587

OCLC:

1458441948

Publisher Number:

CIPO000201931