Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

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.

• 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 Anglophone Postcolonial Poetry Priyamvada Gopal D. The New Experimentalism 15. Avant-Pop Lance Olsen 16. Post-postmodernism Robert L. McLaughlin 17. Globalization and Transnationalism Liam Connell 18. Altermodernist Fiction Alison Gibbons 19. Manifestos and Ars Poetica Laura Winkiel 20. Post-criticism: Conceptual Takes Gregory L. Ulmer Part 2: Experiment Now: Printed Matter E. Experiments with Language 21. The Expanded Field of L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E Charles Bernstein 22. Concrete Poetry and Prose Joe Bray 23. Found Poetry, "Uncreative Writing," and the Art of Appropriation Andrew Epstein 24. Words in Visual Art Jessica Prinz 25. Hoax-Poetry and Inauthenticity Philip Mead F. Experiments with Narrative and Fiction 26. Unnatural Voices, Minds and Narration Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson 27. Impossible Worlds Marie-Laure Ryan 28. Experimental Life Writing Irene Kacandes 29. "Rotting Time": Genre Fiction and the Avant-Garde Elana Gomel G. Experiments with Form and Design 30. Graphic Narrative Hillary Chute 31. Multimodal Literature and Experimentation Alison Gibbons 32. Information Design, Emergent Culture and Experimental Form in the Novel Steve Tomasula 33. Interactive Fiction N. Katherine Hayles and Nick Montfort Part 3: Experiment Now: Beyond The Page H. The Digital Age 34. Digital fiction: Networked Narratives David Ciccoricco 35. Code Poetry and New-Media Literature Steve Tomasula 36. Computer Gaming Astrid Ensslin 37. Virtual Autobiography: Autographies, Interfaces, and Avatars Amy Elias

"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