Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel reads experimental literature in this light, as suffused with anxiety about its adequacy in the light of its status as necessarily imitative and derivative, and therefore redolent of the forms of not-knowing and uncertainty that mark late modernism more generally. There were three editions of the Oblique Strategies produced in limited edition and made available for sale. Asking what are the wider political, ethical, and philosophical correlates of this incommensurability, Late These concepts-error, indeterminacy, uncertainty, accident-all bear a relation to that which evades or resists interpretation and meaning. Or in the rear-view mirror by ellipsis or evasion.
The experimental novel cultivates an interest in methods of representation that are oblique: attempting to conjure the world at an angle, These novels are interested in the fleeting and the fugitive, in discontinuity and shock. This volume takes some of the claims made about experimental fiction-that it is unreadable, nonlinear, elliptical, errant, plotless-and reimagines these descriptors as historically inscribed tendencies that express the period's investment in the idea of the accidental. Charting these engagements, it shows how they have significance not just for our understanding of these decades but for the broader movement of the novel through the century. Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel reassesses the experimentalism versus realism debates of the period, and finds a body of work engaged with, rather than merelyĪntagonistic towards, the literary culture it sought to renovate. Johnson, and Ann Quin worked against the dominance, as they saw it, of the realist novel of the literary mainstream. Other musicians inspired by Oblique Strategies include British band Coldplay, which is said to have used the tag when recording their 2008 album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, and French band Phoenix, who used. Taken with Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens on Panasonic G1. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo In the decades following the immediately postwar period in Britain, a loose grouping of experimental writers that included Alan Burns, Christine Brooke-Rose, B. Oblique strategies are also referenced in comic book 1018, Oblique Corners,7 of popular web comics Problematic Content. Ive wanted these for ages and finally got round to looking on Brian Enos website, where they are for sale, new Ive been thinking about using them to make some new works.
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