Confrontational Readings
Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Dutch and German
Edited by Inge Arteel, Lars Bernaerts and Olivier Couder
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 28 September 2020 • 246pp ISBN: 978-1-781884-01-0 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781884-04-1 (paperback, 22 January 2023) • RRP £13.49, $17.99, €16.49 ISBN: 978-1-781884-07-2 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ContemporaryGermanDutchFictionPoetrystudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. Confrontational Readings explores the manifold relationships between neo-avant-garde literatures. In the areas represented in the study (Flanders, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria), there is a surge of literary experiments with similar preoccupations after the Second World War. Experimental authors from these countries explore similar stylistic, narrative, and intermedial techniques. We can think of montage in fiction, visual procedures in poetry, and jazz-like improvisation in poetry and prose. Authors also engage with similar ideological positions, such as radical leftist thought. This book offers an in-depth view of the literary neo-avant-garde, by thorough discussions of a selection of Dutch-speaking and German-speaking neo-avant-gardists. It also sheds new light on the oeuvres of the selected corpus by confronting each Dutch-speaking writer with a German-speaking writer. Each chapter ‘confronts’ two authors, discussing revealing and meaningful similarities as well as differences. In this transnational spirit, Confrontational Readings presents accessible introductions to each writer presented, and will be valuable to the general reader as well as to scholars of Dutch and German literatures. Contents: Bibliography entry: Arteel, Inge, Lars Bernaerts, and Olivier Couder (eds), Confrontational Readings: Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Dutch and German, Germanic Literatures, 21 (Legenda, 2020) First footnote reference: 35 Confrontational Readings: Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Dutch and German, ed. by Inge Arteel, Lars Bernaerts and Olivier Couder, Germanic Literatures, 21 (Legenda, 2020), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Arteel, Bernaerts, and Couder, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Arteel, Inge, Lars Bernaerts, and Olivier Couder (eds). 2020. Confrontational Readings: Literary Neo-Avant-Gardes in Dutch and German, Germanic Literatures, 21 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Arteel, Bernaerts, and Couder 2020: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Arteel, Bernaerts, and Couder 2020: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Confrontational-Readings www.mhra.org.uk/publications/gl-21 |