Anna Kavan: Mid-Century Experimental Fiction

This first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing...
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Author: Victoria Walker
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Language: English
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Anna Kavan: Mid-Century Experimental Fiction by Walker, Victoria

Anna Kavan: Mid-Century Experimental Fiction

$394.50

Anna Kavan: Mid-Century Experimental Fiction

$394.50
Author: Victoria Walker
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
This first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by reading her comparatively alongside her contemporaries, especially Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Doris Lessing. Taking Kavan's fiction as pivotal to understanding trends of experimentalism that emerged across the middle of the twentieth century, it offers close readings of her distinctive prose including her early Helen Ferguson texts, her writing of asylum incarceration, her wartime stories, and her postwar novels. Observing how her fiction challenges perceived divisions between experimental and realist writing, literary and popular genre and (late) modernist and postwar literatures, it focuses on the ways that Kavan's writing undermines fixed or knowable identity and explores the relationship between reality and fiction. This study not only brings necessary attention to a neglected writer, but also suggests new taxonomies for reading experimental fiction in the mid-twentieth century.

Author: Victoria Walker
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 06/21/2023
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781474478946

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