THE AVANT-POSTMAN
Experimentalism in the Wake of James Joyce

by David Vichnar
ISBN TBA (paperback) 350pp
Publication date: January 2015

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The volume constructs a post-Joycean literary genealogy written in the wake of Joyce's "revolution of the word." Joyce's last two works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, are regarded as explorations of the materiality of language, as reservoirs of new literary techniques and styles, and thus as points of departure for the post-war literary avant-gardes in Great Britain, the USA, and France, in a period generally referred to as "postmodern."" In Britain, this post-Joycean tradition is traced from B.S. Johnson via Brooke-Rose to Iain Sinclair; in the U.S., from William Burroughs and Kathy Acker to Gilbert Sorrentino and Kenneth Goldsmith; and in France, from the nouveau roman and the Oulipo to the Tel Quel group (Philippe Sollers). Bringing all these traditions into the present, the conclusion pits this broad genealogy of the Joycean post-war avant-garde against the received notion of literary "postmodernism."





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