By Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale (eds.)
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the process literary historical past, and the way is it shaping literary expression this day? Literary scan has constantly been assorted and difficult, yet by no means extra so than in our age of electronic media and social networking, while the very type of the literary is coming lower than severe strain. How will literature reconfigure itself sooner or later?
The Routledge better half to Experimental Literature maps this expansive and multifaceted box, with essays on:
- the background of literary scan from the start of the 20 th century to the present
- the effect of latest media on literature, together with multimodal literature, electronic fiction and code poetry
- the improvement of experimental genres from image narratives and located poetry via to gaming and interactive fiction
- experimental routine from Futurism and Surrealism to Postmodernism, Avant-Pop and Flarf.
Shedding new mild on frequently seriously overlooked terrain, the members introduce this shiny quarter, outline its present kingdom, and provide intriguing new views on its future.
This quantity is the perfect creation for these drawing close the examine of experimental literature for the 1st time or trying to additional their knowledge.
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Originating nothing, it appropriates and recycles readymade verbal material, whether read, spoken or culled from the internet. Duplicating texts that already exist, its products are strictly speaking redundant, and in that sense valueless. What more profound challenge could be posed to dominant aesthetic ideologies of self-expression, originality and the personal voice? ” The take is one such post-concept, peculiarly adapted to the literacy (or what Ulmer calls the electracy) of an era of digital technology and internet culture.
