Experimental Literature Links
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 (RECL), 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 RECL 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
Italian Futurism and Russian Cubo-Futurism
The poetics of animism
The surrealist experiments with language
The literary absurd
Postmodernist experimentalism
Spontaneity and improvisation in postwar experimental poetry
The nouveau roman and Tel Quel
Lettrism and situationism
OuLiPo and proceduralism
Metafiction
Postmodernism and experiment
Experiments with identity
Sexing the text
Experiments in black
The limits of hybridity
The new experimentalism
Avant-Pop
Post-postmodernism
Globalization and transnationalism
Altermodernist fiction
Manifestos and Ars Poetica
Post-criticism
Experiment now: printed matter
Experiments with language
The expanded field of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Concrete poetry and prose
Found poetry, "uncreative writing," and the art of appropriation
Words in visual art
Hoax-poetry and inauthenticity
Experiments with narrative and fiction
Unnatural voices, minds, and narration
Impossible worlds
Experimental life writing
Rotting time
Experiments with form and design
Graphic narrative
Multimodal literature and experimentation
Information design, emergent culture and experimental form in the novel
Interactive fiction
Experiment now: beyond the page
The digital age
Digital fiction
Code poetry and new-media literature
Computer gaming
Virtual autobiography
Transmedia narrative
Planned updates
- Add a description for each category.
- Add authors and works for the categories that only have general links.
- Add links from other sites.