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 .