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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.

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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

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 29/03/2022
      ISBN13: 9780198852698, 978-0198852698
      ISBN10: 019885269X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table 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

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