Christine Brooke-Rose and post-war literature 1st ed.

Author

• Darlington, Joseph

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030759063

Series

Subject(s)

• BROOKE-ROSE, CHRISTINE, 1923-2012
• ENGLISH FICTION

Notes

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Abstract

This book utilizes archive research, interviews and historical analysis to present a comprehensive overview of the works of Christine Brooke-Rose. A writer well-known for her idiosyncratic and experimental approaches to the novel form; this work traces her development from her early years as a social satirist, through her space-aged experimentalism in the 1960s, to her later poststructuralism and interest in digital computing and genetics. The book gives an overview of her writing and intellectual career with new archival research that places Brooke-Rose’s work in the context of the historically important events in which she was a participant: Bletchley Park codebreaking in the Second World War, the events in Paris during May 1968, the dawning of the internet and the rise of poststructuralism. Joseph Darlington begins with Brooke-Rose’s first novels written in the late 1950s of social satire, studies her experimental phase of writing and finally illuminates her unique approach to autobiography, arguing for reevaluating this interdisciplinary author and her contribution to poststructuralism, life writing and post-war literature.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (ix, 174 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction --
2. The 1950s: Postgraduate Linguistics and Social Satire --
3. The 1960s: Experimentalism in the Space Age --
4. The 1970s: Chaos at Vincennes and Poststructuralism --
5. The 1980s: Postmodernism and Digital Writing --
6. The 1990s: Fire, Fury and Maximalism --
7. The 2000s: Fragments; Truth, Death and Memory --
8. Conclusion: Christine Brooke-Rose and the Physicality of Language

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00888/21	823.914 Dar C	Online !	Available