Natalie Ferris

Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980

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Produktbeschreibung

Abstraction in Post-War British Literature explores the ways in which writers and thinkers responded to non-representational art in the decades following the Second World War. By offering a chronological overview of the period in Britain, it questions how abstraction came to be discovered, absorbed and reimagined in literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 165mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198852698
• ISBN-10: 019885269X
• Artikelnr.: 63676633

Autorenporträt

Natalie Ferris is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. She is the Deputy Editor of The Cambridge Humanities Review and is the co-founder and convenor of the Christine Brooke-Rose Society.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: A 'World out of Gear': The Question of Abstraction in
Post-War Britain
* 1: Visual Signs: Abstraction, Poetry and The Pope of Modern Art
* 2: A New Cohesive Element: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Abstract Art and the
Abolition of Syntax
* 3: Objects, Concepts, Installations, Bookworks: Literature in an
Expanding Field
* 4: 'Seeing comes before words': New Frames of Perception on Page and
Screen in John Berger, Christine Brooke-Rose and B.S. Johnson