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Nouveau Roman and Writing In Britain After Modernism

Nouveau Roman and Writing In Britain After Modernism

Nouveau Roman and Writing In Britain After Modernism
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Nouveau Roman and Writing In Britain After Modernism Hardback - 2020

by Adam, Guy,

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  • Title Nouveau Roman and Writing In Britain After Modernism
  • Author Adam, Guy,
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 2020-02-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 35858009
  • ISBN 9780198850007 / 019885000X
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects English fiction - 20th century - History and, French fiction - 20th century - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019941491
  • Dewey Decimal Code 843.914
  • Quantity available 5

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From the publisher

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.

About the author

Adam Guy, Departmental Lecturer in English, University of Oxford

Adam Guy is a Departmental Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College.

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