Guy Adam (Departmental Lecturer In English Lecturer In English University Of Oxford)
Guy Adam (Departmental Lecturer In English Lecturer In English University Of Oxford) - The Nouveau Roman And Writing In Britain After Modernism - Hardcover
Guy Adam (Departmental Lecturer In English Lecturer In English University Of Oxford) - The Nouveau Roman And Writing In Britain After Modernism - Hardcover
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Description: The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism recovers a neglected literary history. In the late 1950s news began to arrive in Britain of a group of French writers who were remaking the form of the novel. In the work of Michel Butor Marguerite Duras Robert Pinget Alain Robbe - Grillet Nathalie Sarraute and Claude Simon the hallmarks of novelistic writing - - discernible characters psychological depth linear chronology - - were discarded in favour of other aesthetic horizons. Transposed to Britain's highly polarized literary culture the nouveau roman became a focal point for debates about the novel. For some the nouveau roman represented an aberration and a pernicious turn against the humanistic values that the novel embodied. For others it provided a route out of the stultifying conventionality and conformism that had taken root in British letters. On both sides one question persisted: given the innovations of interwar modernism to what extent was the nouveau roman actually new? This book begins by drawing on publishers archives and hitherto undocumented sources from a wide range of periodicals to show how the nouveau roman was mediated to the British public. Of central importance here is the publisher Calder & Boyars and its belief that the nouveau roman could be enjoyed by a mass public. The book then moves onto literary responses in Britain to the nouveau roman focusing on questions of translation realism the end of empire and the writing of the project. From the translations of Maria Jolas through to the hostile responses of the circle around C. P. Snow and onto the literary debts expressed in novels by Brian W. Aldiss Christine Brooke - Rose Eva Figes B. S. Johnson Alan Sheridan Muriel Spark and Denis Williams the nouveau roman is shown to be a central concern in the postwar British literary field.
Title: The Nouveau Roman And Writing In Britain After Modernism
Author(s): Guy Adam (Departmental Lecturer In English Lecturer In English University Of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198850007
Pages: 246 Pages, 3 Illustrations
Publication Date: 2/5/2020
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism recovers a neglected literary history. In the late 1950s news began to arrive in Britain of a group of French writers who were remaking the form of the novel. In the work of Michel Butor Marguerite Duras Robert Pinget Alain Robbe - Grillet Nathalie Sarraute and Claude Simon the hallmarks of novelistic writing - - discernible characters psychological depth linear chronology - - were discarded in favour of other aesthetic horizons. Transposed to Britain's highly polarized literary culture the nouveau roman became a focal point for debates about the novel. For some the nouveau roman represented an aberration and a pernicious turn against the humanistic values that the novel embodied. For others it provided a route out of the stultifying conventionality and conformism that had taken root in British letters. On both sides one question persisted: given the innovations of interwar modernism to what extent was the nouveau roman actually new? This book begins by drawing on publishers archives and hitherto undocumented sources from a wide range of periodicals to show how the nouveau roman was mediated to the British public. Of central importance here is the publisher Calder & Boyars and its belief that the nouveau roman could be enjoyed by a mass public. The book then moves onto literary responses in Britain to the nouveau roman focusing on questions of translation realism the end of empire and the writing of the project. From the translations of Maria Jolas through to the hostile responses of the circle around C. P. Snow and onto the literary debts expressed in novels by Brian W. Aldiss Christine Brooke - Rose Eva Figes B. S. Johnson Alan Sheridan Muriel Spark and Denis Williams the nouveau roman is shown to be a central concern in the postwar British literary field.
Title: The Nouveau Roman And Writing In Britain After Modernism
Author(s): Guy Adam (Departmental Lecturer In English Lecturer In English University Of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198850007
Pages: 246 Pages, 3 Illustrations
Publication Date: 2/5/2020
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
