The Avant-Postman
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The Avant-Postman

Experiment in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce

  1. 806 pages
  2. English
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The Avant-Postman

Experiment in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce

About this book

A new look at the development of innovative postwar writing in France, Britain, and the United States.
 
The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing from France, Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines from there through the work of more than fifty writers up to very recent years, including William Burroughs, B. S. Johnson, Ian Sinclair, Kathy Acker, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others. Centering the exploration around five 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.

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Table of contents

  1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  2. NOTE ON THE TEXT & DEDICATION
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. 1. JOYCE DE NOUVEAU: WITHIN OR BEHIND OR BEYOND OR ABOVE THE NEW NOVEL, 1947–67
  5. 2. “BUT HOW MANY HAVE FOLLOWED HIM?” JOYCE IN BRITAIN (1955–75)
  6. 3. MAKING JOYCE “PART OF THE LANDSCAPE”: THE AMERICAN LITERARY EXPERIMENT, 1953–1973
  7. 4. JOYCEAN OULIPO, OULIPIAN JOYCE: 1960–1978, BEFORE AND AFTER
  8. 5. “THE CENTENARIAN STILL SEEMS AVANT-GARDE”: EXPERIMENT IN BRITISH FICTION, 1975–2005
  9. 6. “THE FUNNYMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR ERROR”: JOYCE IN AMERICAN FICTION, 1973–1997
  10. 7. JOYCE AS SUCH / TEL QUEL JOYCE: 1960–1982, AND BEYOND
  11. 8. POST-2000 CODA: CONCEPTUAL JOYCE
  12. CONCLUSION:
  13. CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER BIBLIOGRAPHY
  14. INDEX