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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction: ‘The avant-garde must not be romanticized. The avant-garde must not be dismissed’ 1
- Contributors 1
- 1. Muriel Spark and the Possibility of Popular Experiment 20
- 2. B. S. Johnson: The Book as Dynamic Object 36
- 3. Giles Gordon: Beyond the Words and Beyond the Language of Experimentalism 54
- 4. Brigid Brophy’s Aestheticism: The Camp Anti-Novel 72
- 5. Alexander Trocchi: Man at Leisure 90
- 6. Anna Kavan: Pursuing the ‘in-between reality’ Hidden by the ‘ordinary surface of things’ 107
- 7. J. G. Ballard: Visuality and the Novels of the Near Future 125
- 8. Ann Quin: ‘infuriating’ Experiments? 143
- 9. Contradiction, Incongruity and Fragmentation: Political and Avant-Garde Compromise in the Work of Alan Burns 160
- 10. Eva Figes: Tracing the Survival of a ‘Poetry of the Inarticulate’ 176
- 11. Christine Brooke-Rose: The Development of Experiment 193
- 12. Aspirations Inevitably Failing: Hope and Negativity in Rayner Heppenstall’s Experimental Fiction of the 1960s 210
- 13. Maureen Duffy: The Politics of Experimental Fiction 231
- 14. Not the Last Word on the Sixties Avant-Garde: An Afterword 248
- Notes on Contributors 262
- Index 266
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction: ‘The avant-garde must not be romanticized. The avant-garde must not be dismissed’ 1
- Contributors 1
- 1. Muriel Spark and the Possibility of Popular Experiment 20
- 2. B. S. Johnson: The Book as Dynamic Object 36
- 3. Giles Gordon: Beyond the Words and Beyond the Language of Experimentalism 54
- 4. Brigid Brophy’s Aestheticism: The Camp Anti-Novel 72
- 5. Alexander Trocchi: Man at Leisure 90
- 6. Anna Kavan: Pursuing the ‘in-between reality’ Hidden by the ‘ordinary surface of things’ 107
- 7. J. G. Ballard: Visuality and the Novels of the Near Future 125
- 8. Ann Quin: ‘infuriating’ Experiments? 143
- 9. Contradiction, Incongruity and Fragmentation: Political and Avant-Garde Compromise in the Work of Alan Burns 160
- 10. Eva Figes: Tracing the Survival of a ‘Poetry of the Inarticulate’ 176
- 11. Christine Brooke-Rose: The Development of Experiment 193
- 12. Aspirations Inevitably Failing: Hope and Negativity in Rayner Heppenstall’s Experimental Fiction of the 1960s 210
- 13. Maureen Duffy: The Politics of Experimental Fiction 231
- 14. Not the Last Word on the Sixties Avant-Garde: An Afterword 248
- Notes on Contributors 262
- Index 266