The Avant-Postman Experiment in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce

• Main Author: Vichnar, David
• Format: Electronic Book
• Language: Czech
• Published: Karolinum 2023
• Edition: 1. elektronické vydání
• Subjects: Literární věda
• ISBN: 978-80-246-4937-5; 978-80-246-4938-2
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (510 stran)
• Abstract: <i>The Avant-Postman</i> explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing in France, Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce's "revolution of the word" in <i>Ulysses</i> and <i>Finnegans Wake</i> as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines through the work of more than fifty writers up to the present, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, B. S. Johnson, William Burroughs, Christine Brooke-Rose, Georges Perec, Kathy Acker, Iain Sinclair, Hélène Cixous, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others. Centering the exploration around five writing strategies employed by Joyce-narrative parallax, stylistic metempsychosis, concrete writing, forgery, and neologising the logos-the book reveals the striking continuities and developments from Joyce's day to our own.