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Zusatztext "The editors of The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature ?have produced a marvellously wide-ranging! informative! lucid - and often highly original - discussion of experimental writing in the 20th and 21st centuries. From the historical avant-gardes to avant-pop! digital fiction and code poetry! this Companion will be an indispensable guide to new movements and to the intermedia post-generic verbal works that now people our literary landscape." Marjorie Perloff! Stanford University! USA"Experimental! avant-garde! innovative.... the recent history of such terms has been confusing because they seem to blur into synonyms! to share family resemblances rather than strict definitions! and to indicate distinctly different things for different disciplines and genres. With a series of short accessible entries by the go-to authorities in a number of fields! this collection sketches the range of critical work performed by labels that have proven as necessary as they are elusive." Craig Dworkin! The University of Utah! USA Informationen zum Autor Joe Bray is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Alison Gibbons is Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, English Language and Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Brian McHale is Distinguished Arts and Humanities Professor of English at Ohio State University, USA. Zusammenfassung 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 the present the impact of new media on literature, including multimodal literature, digital fiction and code poetry the development of experimental genres from graphic narratives and found poetry through to gaming and interactive fiction experimental movements from Futurism and Surrealism to Postmodernism, Avant-Pop and Flarf. Shedding new light on often critically neglected terrain, the contributors introduce this vibrant area, define its current state, and offer exciting new perspectives on its future. This volume is the ideal introduction for those approaching the study of experimental literature for the first time or looking to further their knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons and Brian Mchale Part 1: The Historical Avant-Gardes A. Modernist-Era Experimentalism 2. Italian Futurism and Russian Cubo-Futurism John White 3. The Poetics of Animism: Realism and the Fantastic in Expressionist Literature and Film Richard Murphy 4. The Surrealist Experiments with Language Peter Stockwell 5. The Literary Absurd Joanna Gavins B. Postmodernist Experimentalism 6. Spontaneity and Improvisation in Postwar Experimental Poetry Benjamin Lee 7. The Nouveau Roman and Tel Quel Danielle Marx-Scouras 8. Lettrism and Situationism Tyrus Miller 9. OuLiPo and Proceduralism Jan Baetens 10. Metafiction Ralph Berry 11. Postmodernism and Experiment Brian McHale C. Experiments with Identity 12. Sexing The Text: Women’s Avant-Garde Writing in the Twentieth Century Ellen Friedman 13. Experiments in Black: African-American Avant-Garde Poetics Aldon Lynn Nielsen 14. The Limits of Hybridity: Language and Innovation in ...
