The Routledge companion to experimental literature
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2012
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Routledge, London [u.a.]
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of...
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What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the future? The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature maps this expansive and multifaceted field, with essays on:the history of literary experiment from the beginning of the twentieth century to
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; PART I The historical avant-gardes; 2. Italian Futurism and Russian Cubo-Futurism; 3. The poetics of animism Realism and the fantastic in expressionist literature and film; 4. The surrealist experiments with language; 5. The literary absurd; 6. Spontaneity and improvisation in postwar experimental poetry; 7. The nouveau roman and Tel Quel; 8. Lettrism and situationism; 9. OuLiPo and proceduralism; 10. Metafiction; 11. Postmodernism and experiment
12. Sexing the text Women's avant-garde writing in the twentieth century13. Experiments in black African-American avant-garde poetics; 14. The limits of hybridity Language and innovation in Anglophone postcolonial poetry; 15. Avant-Pop; 16. Post-postmodernism; 17. Globalization and transnationalism; 18. Altermodernist fiction; 19. Manifestos and Ars Poetica; 20. Post-criticism Conceptual takes; PART II Experiment now: printed matter; 21. The expanded field of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E; 22. Concrete poetry and prose; 23. Found poetry, "uncreative writing," and the art of appropriation
24. Words in visual art25. Hoax-poetry and inauthenticity; 26. Unnatural voices, minds, and narration; 27. Impossible worlds; 28. Experimental life writing; 29. "Rotting time" Genre fiction and the avant-garde; 30. Graphic narrative; 31. Multimodal literature and experimentation; 32. Information design, emergent culture and experimental form in the novel; 33. Interactive fiction; PART III Experiment now: beyond the page; 34. Digital fiction Networked narratives; 35. Code poetry and new-media literature; 36. Computer gaming; 37. Virtual autobiography Autographies, interfaces, and avatars