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* Found poetry [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_poetry Wikipedia]]
* Found poetry [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_poetry Wikipedia]]


==== Words in visual art ====
==== Language art ====


* RCEL Chapter 24: "Words in visual art" by Jessica Prinz
* RCEL Chapter 24: "Words in visual art" by Jessica Prinz
* Conceptual art [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art Wikipedia]]
* Performance art [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_art Wikipedia]]
* Edward Ruscha [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ruscha Wikipedia]]
** Standard Stations by Edward Ruscha [[https://www.archeus.com/artists/piece/ruscha-i-standard-station-ii-mocha-standard-iii-cheese-mold-standard-with-o Archeus]]
** Actual Size by Edward Ruscha [[https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-ruscha/actual-size-1962 WikiArt]]
* Mel Bochner [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Bochner Wikipedia]]
* Jean-Michel Basquiat [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat Wikipedia]]
* Edward Kienholz [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kienholz Wikipedia]]
* Dan Graham [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Graham Wikipedia]]
* Robert Morris (artist) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(artist) Wikipedia]]
* On Kawara [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Kawara Wikipedia]]
* Bruce Nauman [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nauman Wikipedia]]
* Chris Burden [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Burden Wikipedia]]
* Vito Acconci [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Acconci Wikipedia]]
* George Brecht [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brecht Wikipedia]]
* John Cage [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage Wikipedia]]
* Marcel Broodthaers [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Broodthaers Wikipedia]]
* Barbara Kruger [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kruger Wikipedia]]
* Art & Language [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_%26_Language Wikipedia]]
** Terry Atkinson [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Atkinson Wikipedia]]
** Michael Baldwin [[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/art-language-16838 Tate]] [[https://www.moma.org/artists/21325 MoMA]]
** David Bainbridge [[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/art-language-17138 Tate]]
** Harold Hurrell [[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/art-language-16245 Tate]]
** Charles Townsend Harrison [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Townsend_Harrison Wikipedia]]
** Joseph Kosuth [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kosuth Wikipedia]]
*** One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_and_Three_Chairs Wikipedia]]
*** Texts (Waiting for-) for Nothing by Joseph Kosuth [[https://www.skny.com/exhibitions/joseph-kosuth3 Sean Kelly Gallery]]
** Art and & language, hostages XXV - LXXVI by Christian Schlatter David Batchelor [[https://www.librarything.com/work/22244074 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=9780947830243 Wikipedia Book Sources]]
* Daniel Buren [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Buren Wikipedia]]
* Joseph Beuys [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys Wikipedia]]
** How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare by Joseph Beuys [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Explain_Pictures_to_a_Dead_Hare Wikipedia]]
* The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even by Marcel Duchamp [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride_Stripped_Bare_by_Her_Bachelors,_Even Wikipedia]]
* Laurie Anderson [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson Wikipedia]]
* Jonathan Borofsky [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Borofsky Wikipedia]]
* Ann Hamilton (artist) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hamilton_(artist) Wikipedia]]
** Tropos by Ann Hamilton [[https://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/objects/tropos_books.html Ann Hamilton Studio]]
** Lineament by Ann Hamilton [[https://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/objects/lineament_bookball.html Ann Hamilton Studio]]
** Mercy by Ann Hamilton [[https://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/projects/mercy.html Ann Hamilton Studio]]
** VERSE by Ann Hamilton [[http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/public/verse.html Ann Hamilton Studio]]
* Lawrence Weiner [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Weiner Wikipedia]]
* Douglas Huebler [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Huebler Wikipedia]]
* Robert Barry (artist) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barry_(artist) Wikipedia]]
* Robert Smithson [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smithson Wikipedia]]
** Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Jetty Wikipedia]] [[https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-smithson/spiral-jetty-1970 WikiArt]]
** A Heap of Language by Robert Smithson [[https://www.moma.org/collection/works/149054 MoMA]] [[https://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/heap.htm Robert Smithson]]
** "Strata, a Geophotographic Fiction," Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings by Robert Smithson [[https://www.librarything.com/work/61528 LibraryThing]]
** "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Proposals," Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings by Robert Smithson [[https://www.librarything.com/work/61528 LibraryThing]]
* Jenny Holzer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer Wikipedia]]
** Truisms by Jenny Holzer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truisms_(Jenny_Holzer) Wikipedia]]
** Jenny Holzer: Laments by Jenny Holzer [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3339875 LibraryThing]] [[https://www.diaart.org/program/exhibitions-projects/jenny-holzer-laments-exhibition Dia]]
** Jenny Holzer: Lustmord by Jenny Holzer [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3338682 LibraryThing]] [[https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WqfvayUAAKsrVreh Wellcome Collection]]
** Under a Rock: Crack the Pelvis by Jenny Holzer [[http://www.colby.edu/museum/?s=under%20a%20rock&obj=Obj220?sid=1079&x=24931 Colby College Museum of Art]]
** Jenny Holzer: Truth Before Power by Henri Cole [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3338740 LibraryThing]]
** Jenny Holzer Projections [[http://www.jennyholzer.com/Projections/list.php Jenny Holzer]] [[https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/light-as-touch-jenny-holzers-nighttime-poetry-projections The New Yorker]]
** Elizabeth Bishop granite benches by Jenny Holzer [[http://info.vassar.edu/news/2005-2006/060505-jenny-holzers.html Vassar College]]


==== Literary inauthenticity ====
==== Literary inauthenticity ====
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=== Experiments with narrative and fiction ===
=== Experiments with narrative and fiction ===
==== Unnatural narratives ====
==== Unnatural narration ====


* RCEL Chapter 26: "Unnatural voices, minds, and narration" by Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson
* RCEL Chapter 26: "Unnatural voices, minds, and narration" by Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson
===== Impossibly informed narrator =====
* Virginie: Her Two Lives by John Hawkes [[https://www.librarything.com/work/121280 LibraryThing]]
* Travesties by Tom Stoppard [[https://www.librarything.com/work/27223 LibraryThing]]
* Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie [[https://www.librarything.com/work/2118 LibraryThing]]
* In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust [[https://www.librarything.com/work/23844 LibraryThing]]
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald [[https://www.librarything.com/work/2964 LibraryThing]]
* Moby Dick by Herman Melville [[https://www.librarything.com/work/15540 LibraryThing]]
* Ulysses by James Joyce [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8520 LibraryThing]]
===== Impossibly confused narrator =====
* Molloy by Samuel Beckett [[https://www.librarything.com/work/56659 LibraryThing]]
* In the Labyrinth by Alain Robbe-Grillet [[https://www.librarything.com/work/319705 LibraryThing]]
* "You Are As Brave As Vincent Van Gogh," Flying to America: 45 More Stories by Donald Barthelme [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3397639 LibraryThing]]
===== Non-human narrator =====
* Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf [[https://www.librarything.com/work/891578 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kew_Gardens_(short_story) Wikipedia]]
* "The House of Asterion," The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges [[https://www.librarything.com/work/1443832 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Asterion Wikipedia]]
* "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot," Tabloid Dreams: Stories by Robert Olen Butler [[https://www.librarything.com/work/150283 LibraryThing]]
* Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle [[https://www.librarything.com/work/93750 LibraryThing]]
* "My Life As a West African Gray Parrot," The Left-Handed Marriage: Stories by Leigh Buchanan Bienen [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3769284 LibraryThing]]
* Shakespeare's Dog by Leon Rooke [[https://www.librarything.com/work/203121 LibraryThing]]
* "The Stowaway," A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes [[http://www.librarything.com/work/7133 LibraryThing]]
* Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse by John Hawkes [[https://www.librarything.com/work/216641 LibraryThing]]
* Firmin by Sam Savage [[https://www.librarything.com/work/922702 LibraryThing]]
* Timbuktu by Paul Auster [[https://www.librarything.com/work/27521 LibraryThing]]
===== Dead narrator =====
* Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo [[https://www.librarything.com/work/84285 LibraryThing]]
* Pincher Martin by William Golding [[https://www.librarything.com/work/286280 LibraryThing]]
* The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien [[https://www.librarything.com/work/7104 LibraryThing]]
* "Terra Incognita," A Russian Beauty and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov [[https://www.librarything.com/work/224314 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Incognita_(short_story) Wikipedia]]
* Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov [[https://www.librarything.com/work/51102 LibraryThing]]
* Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies [[https://www.librarything.com/work/73673 LibraryThing]]
* American Desert by Percival Everett [[https://www.librarything.com/work/238787 LibraryThing]]
* My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk [[https://www.librarything.com/work/2744 LibraryThing]]
* Hotel World by Ali Smith [[https://www.librarything.com/work/19451 LibraryThing]]
* Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes [[https://www.librarything.com/work/6516575 LibraryThing]]
* The Book Thief by Markus Zusak [[https://www.librarything.com/work/393681 LibraryThing]]
* "The Calmative," Stories and Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3398 LibraryThing]]
* The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold [[https://www.librarything.com/work/4931 LibraryThing]]
===== Focalization technology =====
* "The Aleph," The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges [[https://www.librarything.com/work/1443832 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story) Wikipedia]]
* Neuromancer by William Gibson [[https://www.librarything.com/work/609 LibraryThing]]
===== First-person plural =====
* "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, American Gothic Tales by Joyce Carol Oates [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8038219 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rose_for_Emily Wikipedia]]
* 12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright [[https://www.librarything.com/work/666218 LibraryThing]]
* Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah [[https://www.librarything.com/work/77062 LibraryThing]]
* You Don't Love Yourself by Nathalie Sarraute [[https://www.librarything.com/work/2374617 LibraryThing]]
===== Second-person =====
* A Pagan Place by Edna O'Brien [[https://www.librarything.com/work/218163 LibraryThing]]
* "How," Self-help by Lorrie Moore [[http://www.librarything.com/work/35303 LibraryThing]]
* If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino [[https://www.librarything.com/work/4091153 LibraryThing]]
===== Third-person singular impersonal =====
* The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth [[https://www.librarything.com/work/10159 LibraryThing]]
* The opoponax by Monique Wittig [[https://www.librarything.com/work/257236 LibraryThing]]
===== Third-person plural =====
* Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec [[https://www.librarything.com/work/1197807 LibraryThing]]
* Flower Children by Maxine Swann [[https://www.librarything.com/work/2375201 LibraryThing]]
===== Gender-neutral pronouns =====
* The Cook and The Carpenter by June Arnold [[https://www.librarything.com/work/736228 LibraryThing]]
===== Pronouns omitted =====
* "Dead Doll Humility" by Kathy Acker, The Making of the American Essay (A New History of the Essay) by John D'Agata [[https://www.librarything.com/work/17216549 LibraryThing]]
===== Multiple points of view =====
* "The Cubs," The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa [[https://www.librarything.com/work/17905949 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Cachorros Wikipedia]]
* The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes [[https://www.librarything.com/work/18213 LibraryThing]]
* Maps by Nuruddin Farah [[https://www.librarything.com/work/70403 LibraryThing]]
* Compact by Maurice Roche [[https://www.librarything.com/work/1287065 LibraryThing]]
===== Merged narrators =====
* Monsieur Levert by Robert Pinget [[https://www.librarything.com/work/1170050 LibraryThing]]
* "13," Stories and Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3398 LibraryThing]]
* The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett [[https://www.librarything.com/work/276374 LibraryThing]]
* Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis [[https://www.librarything.com/work/7545 LibraryThing]]
===== Anachronism =====
* Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed [[https://www.librarything.com/work/35987 LibraryThing]]
===== Mid-narrative editing =====
* Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett [[https://www.librarything.com/work/782565 LibraryThing]]


==== Impossible worlds ====
==== Impossible worlds ====


* RCEL Chapter 27: "Impossible worlds" by Marie-Laure Ryan
* RCEL Chapter 27: "Impossible worlds" by Marie-Laure Ryan
===== Contradictions =====
* In the Labyrinth by Alain Robbe-Grillet [[https://www.librarything.com/work/319705 LibraryThing]]
* The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles [[https://www.librarything.com/work/6923 LibraryThing]]
* "The Babysitter," Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions by Robert Coover [[https://www.librarything.com/work/271307 LibraryThing]]
* The Libera Me Domine by Robert Pinget [[https://www.librarything.com/work/478922 LibraryThing]]
* "Here We Aren’t, So Quickly" by Jonathan Safran Foer, 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker by Deborah Treisman [[https://www.librarything.com/work/10491291 LibraryThing]] [[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/14/here-we-arent-so-quickly full text - The New Yorker]]
* "A Country Doctor," A Country Doctor: Short Stories by Franz Kafka [[https://www.librarything.com/work/195671 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Country_Doctor_(short_story) Wikipedia]]
===== Ontological impossibility =====
* Pleasantville [1998 film] by Gary Ross [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3510622 LibraryThing]]
* "Continuity of Parks," Blow-up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar [[https://www.librarything.com/work/9057461 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuidad_de_los_parques Wikipedia]]
* Jasper Fforde [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde Wikipedia]]
* The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen omnibus by Alan Moore [[https://www.librarything.com/work/11388754 LibraryThing]]
===== Impossible space =====
* Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski [[https://www.librarything.com/work/1488 LibraryThing]]
* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8288 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland Wikipedia]]
===== Impossible time =====
* Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick [[https://www.librarything.com/work/1309466 LibraryThing]]
* Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence by Martin Amis [[https://www.librarything.com/work/11900 LibraryThing]]
* The Mustache by Emmanuel Carrère [[https://www.librarything.com/work/529866 LibraryThing]]
===== Impossible texts =====
* "The Book of Sand," The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges [[http://www.librarything.com/work/467534 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Sand Wikipedia]]
* One Thousand and One Nights [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights Wikipedia]]
* "The Garden of Forking Paths," Labyrinths; Selected stories & other writings by Jorge Luis Borges [[https://www.librarything.com/work/607 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Forking_Paths Wikipedia]]


==== Experimental life writing ====
==== Experimental life writing ====


* RCEL Chapter 28: "Experimental life writing" by Irene Kacandes
* RCEL Chapter 28: "Experimental life writing" by Irene Kacandes
===== Time =====
* Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters [[https://www.librarything.com/work/93508 LibraryThing]]
* One Day a Year: 1960 - 2000 by Christa Wolf [[https://www.librarything.com/work/466217 LibraryThing]]
===== Medium =====
* Comics
** The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman [[https://www.librarything.com/work/6046618 LibraryThing]]
** The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [[https://www.librarything.com/work/6392056 LibraryThing]]
** Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel [[https://www.librarything.com/work/627079 LibraryThing]]
** 1941-45: a teenager's war: Crete, captivity, liberation by Frederick V. Carabott [[https://www.worldcat.org/title/1941-45-ho-polemos-henos-ephebou-krete-aichmalosia-apeleutherosis-1941-45-a-teenagers-war-crete-captivity-liberation-1941-45-der-krieg-eines-jugendlichen-kreta-gefangenschaft-befreiung/oclc/48228994 WorldCat.org]]
* Non-diegetic poetry
** Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje [[https://www.librarything.com/work/27962 LibraryThing]]
** Zami: a New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8116 LibraryThing]]
* Reference-work structure
** A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers [[https://www.librarything.com/work/2294 LibraryThing]]
** Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal [[https://www.librarything.com/work/35433 LibraryThing]]
** The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham [[https://www.librarything.com/work/5248942 LibraryThing]]
===== The relational =====
* The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano [[https://www.librarything.com/work/331076 LibraryThing]]
* Ein Kapitel aus meinem Leben by Barbara Honigmann [[https://www.librarything.com/work/4500497 LibraryThing]]
* After Long Silence by Helen Fremont [[https://www.librarything.com/work/13147 LibraryThing]]
===== The work's focus =====
* Patterns of Childhood by Christa Wolf [[https://www.librarything.com/work/700778 LibraryThing]]
* Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8660368 LibraryThing]]
* Youth by J. M. Coetzee [[https://www.librarything.com/work/105432 LibraryThing]]
* Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8494635 LibraryThing]]
* Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes [[https://www.librarything.com/work/592881 LibraryThing]]
* W, or The Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec [[https://www.librarything.com/work/39076 LibraryThing]]
===== Multiple techniques =====
* Daddy's War: Greek American Stories by Irene Kacandes [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8797694 LibraryThing]]


==== Experimental genre fiction ====
==== Experimental genre fiction ====
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=== Experiments with form and design ===
=== Experiments with form and design ===
==== Graphic narrative ====
 
==== Experimental comics ====


* RCEL Chapter 30: "Graphic narrative" by Hillary Chute
* RCEL Chapter 30: "Graphic narrative" by Hillary Chute
* Alternative comics [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_comics Wikipedia]]
* Alternative comics [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_comics Wikipedia]]
===== Early twentieth century =====
* Little Nemo [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo Wikipedia]]
* Wordless novel [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordless_novel Wikipedia]]
** Vertigo by Lynd Ward [[https://www.librarything.com/work/334743 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_(wordless_novel) Wikipedia]]
** Frans Masereel [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Masereel Wikipedia]]
** Otto Nückel [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_N%C3%BCckel Wikipedia]]
** Giacomo Patri [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Patri Wikipedia]]
===== Late twentieth century =====
* Mad (magazine) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_(magazine) Wikipedia]]
* Underground comix [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_comix Wikipedia]]
** Robert Crumb [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crumb Wikipedia]]
*** Zap Comix [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap_Comix Wikipedia]]
*** Weirdo (comics) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weirdo_(comics) Wikipedia]]
** Art Spiegelman [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Spiegelman Wikipedia]]
*** Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman [[https://www.librarything.com/work/5655445 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakdowns_(comics) Wikipedia]]
*** Raw (magazine) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_(magazine) Wikipedia]]
** Here by Richard McGuire [[https://www.librarything.com/work/14952042 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_(comics) Wikipedia]]
** Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary by Justin Green [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3275118 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binky_Brown_Meets_the_Holy_Virgin_Mary Wikipedia]]
** Aline Kominsky-Crumb [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_Kominsky-Crumb Wikipedia]]
===== Twenty-first century =====
* PictureBox [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PictureBox Wikipedia]]
* In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman [[https://www.librarything.com/work/7016 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_No_Towers Wikipedia]]
* Chris Ware [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ware Wikipedia]]
** Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth by Chris Ware [[https://www.librarything.com/work/7614 LibraryThing]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Corrigan,_the_Smartest_Kid_on_Earth Wikipedia]]
** Unmasked [[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/02/unmasked-4 The New Yorker]]
* Alison Bechdel [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Bechdel Wikipedia]]
* Joe Sacco [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sacco Wikipedia]]
* Lynda Barry [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Barry Wikipedia]]
** What It Is by Lynda Barry [[https://www.librarything.com/work/4598224 LibraryThing]]
** Picture This: The Near-sighted Monkey Book by Lynda Barry [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8906129 LibraryThing]]
* Jason Shiga [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Shiga Wikipedia]]
* 365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet by Julie Doucet [[https://www.librarything.com/work/3471751 LibraryThing]]
* Abstract comics [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_comics Wikipedia]]
** Abstract Comics: The Anthology by Andrei Molotiu [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8785206 LibraryThing]] [[http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/ Abstract Comics: The Blog]]


==== Multimodal literature ====
==== Multimodal literature ====
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* RCEL Chapter 34: "Digital fiction: Networked narratives" by David Ciccoricco
* RCEL Chapter 34: "Digital fiction: Networked narratives" by David Ciccoricco
* Storyspace [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyspace Wikipedia]] [[http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/2/000128/000128.html Machine Enhanced (Re)minding: the Development of Storyspace - Digital Humanities Quarterly]] [[http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/ell/2017/10/28/untangling-threads-in-the-maze/ Untangling Threads in the Labyrinth – Electronic Literature Lab]]
* Click by John Barth [[https://elmcip.net/node/1991 ELMCIP]]
* The Glass Snail: a Pre-Christmas Tale by Milorad Pavić [[https://elmcip.net/node/1080 ELMCIP]]
* 10:01 by Lance Olsen [[https://www.librarything.com/work/1139235 LibraryThing]] [[https://elmcip.net/node/1356 ELMCIP]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10:01 Wikipedia]]
* TOC: A New Media Novel by Steve Tomasula [[https://www.librarything.com/work/9462724 LibraryThing]] [[https://elmcip.net/node/835 ELMCIP]]
* The LiveJournal of Zachary Marsh by Matthew Baldwin [[https://elmcip.net/node/13635 ELMCIP]] [[https://themorningnews.org/article/the-livejournal-of-zachary-marsh full text - The Morning News]]
* A Million Penguins [[https://elmcip.net/node/6215 ELMCIP]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090803141129/http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Welcome full text - PenguinWiki]] [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228465833_A_million_penguins_research_report (PDF) A million penguins research report - ResearchGate]] [[https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/mar/12/livingwithamillionpenguins Living with A Million Penguins: inside the wiki-novel - The Guardian]]
* Blue Company by Rob Wittig [[https://elmcip.net/node/368 ELMCIP]] [[http://robwit.net/?project=blue-company robwit.net]]
* Deena Larsen [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deena_Larsen Wikipedia]]
** Marble Springs 1.0 by Deena Larsen [[https://elmcip.net/node/3231 ELMCIP]]
** Marble Springs 3.0 by Deena Larsen [[https://elmcip.net/node/4417 ELMCIP]]
** Disappearing Rain by Deena Larsen [[https://elmcip.net/node/759 ELMCIP]]
* Judy Malloy [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Malloy Wikipedia]]
* Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse by John McDaid [[https://elmcip.net/node/519 ELMCIP]] [[http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/pathfinders/authors-works/john-mcdaid-uncle-buddys-phantom-funhouse/ Pathfinders]] [[http://scalar.usc.edu/works/pathfinders/mcdaids-traversal John McDaid's Traversal - Pathfinders]]
* Michael Joyce (writer) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Joyce_(writer) Wikipedia]]
** afternoon, a story by Michael Joyce [[https://elmcip.net/node/236 ELMCIP]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon,_a_story Wikipedia]]
** Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce [[https://elmcip.net/node/237 ELMCIP]]
* I Have Said Nothing by J. Yellowlees Douglas [[https://elmcip.net/node/2063 ELMCIP]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_Said_Nothing Wikipedia]]
* We Descend by Bill Bly [[http://scalar.usc.edu/works/pathfinders/bill-bly Pathfinders]]
** We Descend: Archives Pertaining to Edgerus Scriptor, Volume One [[https://elmcip.net/node/1101 ELMCIP]]
** We Descend: Archives Pertaining to Egderus Scriptor, Volume Two [[https://elmcip.net/node/4269 ELMCIP]]
* Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson [[https://elmcip.net/node/239 ELMCIP]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchwork_Girl_(hypertext) Wikipedia]]
* Califia by M. D. Coverley [[https://elmcip.net/node/723 ELMCIP]]
* Victory Garden by Stuart Moulthrop [[https://elmcip.net/node/352 ELMCIP]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Garden_(novel) Wikipedia]]
* The Unknown by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, Dirk Stratton, and Frank Marquardt [[https://elmcip.net/node/662 ELMCIP]]
* GRAMMATRON by Mark Amerika [[https://elmcip.net/node/581 ELMCIP]]
* 253 by Geoff Ryman [[https://elmcip.net/node/7513 ELMCIP]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/253_(novel) Wikipedia]]
* The Jew's Daughter by Judd Morrissey [[https://elmcip.net/node/78 ELMCIP]]
* Erik Loyer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Loyer Wikipedia]]
** Chroma by Erik Loyer [[https://elmcip.net/node/1289 ELMCIP]]
** Lair of the Marrow Monkey by Erik Loyer [[https://elmcip.net/node/5067 ELMCIP]]
* Shelley Jackson [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Jackson Wikipedia]]
** my body — a Wunderkammer by Shelley Jackson [[https://elmcip.net/node/793 ELMCIP]]
* About Time by Rob Swigart [[https://elmcip.net/node/4112 ELMCIP]]
* The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam by Andy Campbell and Martyn Bedford [[https://elmcip.net/node/1600 ELMCIP]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtual_Disappearance_of_Miriam Wikipedia]]
* Varicella by Adam Cadre [[https://elmcip.net/node/7775 ELMCIP]] [[http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Varicella IFWiki]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_(video_game) Wikipedia]]
* Ruth Nestvold [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Nestvold Wikipedia]]
** Joe's Heartbeat in Budapest by Ruth Nestvold [[http://www.lit-arts.net/JHIB/begin.htm full text - Lit-Arts.Net]]
* 2002: A Palindrome Story in 2002 Words by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie [[https://elmcip.net/node/7962 ELMCIP]]


==== Code poetry and new-media literature ====
==== Code poetry and new-media literature ====
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* RCEL Chapter 37: "Virtual autobiography: Autographies, interfaces, and avatars" by Amy J. Elias
* RCEL Chapter 37: "Virtual autobiography: Autographies, interfaces, and avatars" by Amy J. Elias
===== Comic-based autobiography =====
* Autobiographical comics [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_comics Wikipedia]]
* How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden [[https://www.librarything.com/work/8372743 LibraryThing]]
* DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary by Erika Moen [[https://www.librarything.com/series/DAR LibraryThing]] [[https://www.darcomic.com/ DAR]]
* Webcomics Nation Autobiographical/Slice-of-Life Directory [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150511003243/http://www.webcomicsnation.com/genre.php?genre=4 Webcomics Nation]]
* Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection by Julia Wertz [[https://www.librarything.com/work/15401747 LibraryThing]] [[http://www.juliawertz.com/ Museum of Mistakes]]
* my body — a Wunderkammer by Shelley Jackson [[http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/jackson__my_body_a_wunderkammer.html full text - Electronic Literature Collection]]
===== Web-based autobiography =====
* My War: Killing Time in Iraq by Colby Buzzell [[https://www.librarything.com/work/220797 LibraryThing]] [[http://cbftw.blogspot.com/ cbftw]]
* Vlog [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog Wikipedia]]
* Life writing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_writing Wikipedia]]
** Association pour l'Autobiographie et le Patrimoine Autobiographique [[http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1739/3239 The Story of a French Life-Writing Archive - Forum: Qualitative Social Research]]
* Oral history [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_history Wikipedia]]
** Mass-Observation [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-Observation Wikipedia]]
** American Social History Project [[https://ashp.cuny.edu/ Center for Media and Learning]]
* DissemiNET [[https://web.archive.org/web/20010405012224/http://www.dissemi.net:80/ dissemi.net]] [[https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/stryker-beth-900809 Interview with Sawad Brooks + Beth Stryker - Walker Art Center]]
* Recollecting Adams [[https://mariannerpetit.com/web-video-animations/2008-09-recollecting-adams/ full video - Marianne R. Petit]]
===== Avatar-based autobiography =====
* Cell phone novel [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel Wikipedia]] [[http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005332.html A million cellphone novels - Language Log]]
* MMORPG [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_game Wikipedia]]
* Virtual world [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world Wikipedia]]
** Second Life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life Wikipedia]]


== Planned updates ==
== Planned updates ==

Latest revision as of 09:39, 28 April 2019

Introduction

This article is a list of links to authors, works, and categories in experimental literature. Its purpose is to give you a starting point for exploring works in this set of genres.

I've based the list's organization on The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (RCEL), a collection of scholarly essays on the subject.

This project is a work in progress.

How to use this list

If a category is well established in the field, I've linked to its Wikipedia article. If the author of the RCEL article was conducting their own survey of the category, I've listed the authors and works they cover with links to Wikipedia and LibraryThing wherever corresponding pages are available. I've also included links to a work's full text when that's available and links to background information from other sources.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia articles will give you background information on their subject, and they'll usually contain bibliographies that will point you to works related to that subject, such as works in the category or works by the author.

LibraryThing

LibraryThing is a social library catalog website that lets you catalog your collection. Here I'm using it for its recommendation features and its links to other sites.

When you visit a work's LibraryThing page, you can find related works in the "LibraryThing Recommendations" section and the "Member recommendations" section. You can also click on the tags users have assigned to it. Each tag link takes you to a page for that tag, which lists other works that have been assigned it, as well as related tags, subjects, and tagmashes, which are combinations of tags. You can create your own tagmashes.

In the upper right sidebar of a work's LibraryThing page, you'll find links to its corresponding page on other catalog websites, such as Amazon, Google Books, and WorldCat, a shared catalog of physical libraries worldwide. These sites will often let you look through a preview of the book. They'll also give you ways to find other related works, usually by recommendations or subject links on the work's page. If you're logged in, you can edit this section to show links from a long list of other sites.

General

  • Experimental literature [Wikipedia]
  • Bray, Joe, Alison Gibbons, and Brian McHale, eds. The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. Routledge Companions. London: Routledge, 2015. [LibraryThing]

The historical avant-gardes

Modernist-era experimentalism

Futurism

  • RCEL Chapter 2: "Italian Futurism and Russian Cubo-Futurism" by John White
  • Futurism (literature) [Wikipedia]

Expressionism

  • RCEL Chapter 3: "The poetics of animism: Realism and the fantastic in expressionist literature and film" by Richard Murphy
  • Expressionism [Wikipedia]

Surrealism

  • RCEL Chapter 4: "The surrealist experiments with language" by Peter Stockwell
  • Surrealism [Wikipedia]

Absurdism

  • RCEL Chapter 5: "The literary absurd" by Joanna Gavins
  • Absurdist fiction [Wikipedia]

Postmodernist experimentalism

Postwar experimental poetry

  • RCEL Chapter 6: "Spontaneity and improvisation in postwar experimental poetry" by Benjamin Lee
  • The New American Poetry 1945–1960 [Wikipedia]

The nouveau roman and Tel Quel

  • RCEL Chapter 7: "The nouveau roman and Tel Quel" by Danielle Marx-Scouras
  • Nouveau roman [Wikipedia]
  • Tel Quel [Wikipedia]

Lettrism and situationism

  • RCEL Chapter 8: "Lettrism and situationism" by Tyrus Miller
  • Lettrism [Wikipedia]
  • Situationist International [Wikipedia]

OuLiPo and proceduralism

  • RCEL Chapter 9: "OuLiPo and proceduralism" by Jan Baetens
  • Constrained writing [Wikipedia]
  • Oulipo [Wikipedia]

Metafiction

  • RCEL Chapter 10: "Metafiction" by R. M. Berry
  • Metafiction [Wikipedia]

Postmodern literature

  • RCEL Chapter 11: "Postmodernism and experiment" by Brian McHale
  • Postmodern literature [Wikipedia]

Experiments with identity

Twentieth-century avant-garde women writers

Twentieth-century avant-garde African-American poets

Anglophone postcolonial poetry

The new experimentalism

Avant-Pop

  • RCEL Chapter 15: "Avant-Pop" by Lance Olsen
  • Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (Black Ice Books) by Larry McCaffery [LibraryThing]
  • After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology by Larry McCaffery [LibraryThing]
  • Tomas Alfredson [Wikipedia]
  • Italo Calvino [Wikipedia]
  • David Clark [ELMCIP]
  • Umberto Eco [Wikipedia]
  • Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig [LibraryThing]
  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs [LibraryThing]
  • Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth [LibraryThing]
  • Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture (Contemp North American Poetry) by Joe Amato [LibraryThing]
  • Kenneth Goldsmith [Wikipedia]
  • Robert Coover [Wikipedia]
  • Angela Carter [Wikipedia]
  • Aimee Bender [Wikipedia]
  • White Noise by Don DeLillo [LibraryThing]
  • Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon [LibraryThing]
  • Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski [LibraryThing]
  • Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ouředník [LibraryThing]
  • Mark Leyner [Wikipedia]
  • Traveling to Utopia: With a Brief History of the Technology by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries [LibraryThing]

Post-postmodernism

  • RCEL Chapter 16: "Post-postmodernism" by Robert L. McLaughlin
  • Post-postmodernism [Wikipedia]

Globalization and transnationalism

  • RCEL Chapter 17: "Globalization and transnationalism" by Liam Connell
  • Count Zero by William Gibson [LibraryThing]
  • The Fountain at the Centre of the World by Robert Newman [LibraryThing]
  • Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita [LibraryThing]
  • Mark Lombardi: Global Networks by Robert Hobbs [LibraryThing]
  • JPod by Douglas Coupland [LibraryThing]
  • Looking for Headless by K. D. [LibraryThing]

Altermodernist fiction

Manifestos and Ars Poetica

  • RCEL Chapter 19: "Manifestos and Ars Poetica" by Laura Winkiel
  • Manifesto [Wikipedia]
  • Ars Poetica (Horace) [Wikipedia]
  • Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish [full text]

Post-criticism

  • RCEL Chapter 20: "Post-criticism: Conceptual takes" by Gregory L. Ulmer
  • Heuretics: The Logic of Invention by Gregory L. Ulmer [LibraryThing]

Experiment now: printed matter

Experiments with language

Language poetry

  • RCEL Chapter 21: "The expanded field of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E" by Charles Bernstein
  • Language poets [Wikipedia]

Concrete poetry and prose

  • RCEL Chapter 22: "Concrete poetry and prose" by Joe Bray
  • Concrete poetry [Wikipedia]

Found poetry and "uncreative writing"

  • RCEL Chapter 23: "Found poetry, 'uncreative writing,' and the art of appropriation" by Andrew Epstein
  • Found poetry [Wikipedia]

Language art

Literary inauthenticity

  • RCEL Chapter 25: "Hoax-poetry and inauthenticity" by Philip Mead
Classical
Modern
Post-hoax

Experiments with narrative and fiction

Unnatural narration

  • RCEL Chapter 26: "Unnatural voices, minds, and narration" by Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson
Impossibly informed narrator
Impossibly confused narrator
  • Molloy by Samuel Beckett [LibraryThing]
  • In the Labyrinth by Alain Robbe-Grillet [LibraryThing]
  • "You Are As Brave As Vincent Van Gogh," Flying to America: 45 More Stories by Donald Barthelme [LibraryThing]
Non-human narrator
  • Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf [LibraryThing] [Wikipedia]
  • "The House of Asterion," The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges [LibraryThing] [Wikipedia]
  • "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot," Tabloid Dreams: Stories by Robert Olen Butler [LibraryThing]
  • Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle [LibraryThing]
  • "My Life As a West African Gray Parrot," The Left-Handed Marriage: Stories by Leigh Buchanan Bienen [LibraryThing]
  • Shakespeare's Dog by Leon Rooke [LibraryThing]
  • "The Stowaway," A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes [LibraryThing]
  • Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse by John Hawkes [LibraryThing]
  • Firmin by Sam Savage [LibraryThing]
  • Timbuktu by Paul Auster [LibraryThing]
Dead narrator
Focalization technology
First-person plural
Second-person
Third-person singular impersonal
Third-person plural
Gender-neutral pronouns
Pronouns omitted
  • "Dead Doll Humility" by Kathy Acker, The Making of the American Essay (A New History of the Essay) by John D'Agata [LibraryThing]
Multiple points of view
Merged narrators
Anachronism
Mid-narrative editing

Impossible worlds

  • RCEL Chapter 27: "Impossible worlds" by Marie-Laure Ryan
Contradictions
Ontological impossibility
Impossible space
Impossible time
Impossible texts

Experimental life writing

  • RCEL Chapter 28: "Experimental life writing" by Irene Kacandes
Time
Medium
  • Comics
    • The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman [LibraryThing]
    • The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [LibraryThing]
    • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel [LibraryThing]
    • 1941-45: a teenager's war: Crete, captivity, liberation by Frederick V. Carabott [WorldCat.org]
  • Non-diegetic poetry
  • Reference-work structure
    • A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers [LibraryThing]
    • Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal [LibraryThing]
    • The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order by Joan Wickersham [LibraryThing]
The relational
The work's focus
Multiple techniques
  • Daddy's War: Greek American Stories by Irene Kacandes [LibraryThing]

Experimental genre fiction

  • RCEL Chapter 29: "'Rotting time': Genre fiction and the avant-garde" by Elana Gomel
Fantasy
Science fiction
Horror

Experiments with form and design

Experimental comics

  • RCEL Chapter 30: "Graphic narrative" by Hillary Chute
  • Alternative comics [Wikipedia]
Early twentieth century
Late twentieth century
Twenty-first century

Multimodal literature

  • RCEL Chapter 31: "Multimodal literature and experimentation" by Alison Gibbons
  • Liberature [Wikipedia]

Information design

  • RCEL Chapter 32: "Information design, emergent culture and experimental form in the novel" by Steve Tomasula
  • Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau [LibraryThing]
  • Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman [LibraryThing]
  • The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation by Peter Norvig [full text]
  • Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ouředník [LibraryThing]
  • 2666 by Roberto Bolaño [LibraryThing]

Interactive fiction

  • RCEL Chapter 33: "Interactive fiction" by N. Katherine Hayles And Nick Montfort
  • Interactive fiction [Wikipedia]

Experiment now: beyond the page

The digital age

Digital fiction

Code poetry and new-media literature

  • RCEL Chapter 35: "Code poetry and new-media literature" by Steve Tomasula
  • Code poetry [Wikipedia]

Computer gaming

  • RCEL Chapter 36: "Computer gaming" by Astrid Ensslin
  • Art game [Wikipedia]

Virtual autobiography

  • RCEL Chapter 37: "Virtual autobiography: Autographies, interfaces, and avatars" by Amy J. Elias
Comic-based autobiography
Web-based autobiography
Avatar-based autobiography

Planned updates

  • Add links to the empty categories.
  • Add a description for each category.
  • Add authors and works for the categories that only have general links.
  • Add links from other sites.
  • Normalize the reference formatting.