Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie Ferris, Natalie (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fel Ferris, Natalie (Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow Ferris, Ferris Natalie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780198852698
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885269-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)