By Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale (eds.)
What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the process literary background, and the way is it shaping literary expression this present day? Literary test has regularly been different and demanding, yet by no means extra so than in our age of electronic media and social networking, whilst the very class of the literary is coming lower than excessive 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 heritage of literary test from the start of the 20 th century to the present
- the impression of latest media on literature, together with multimodal literature, electronic fiction and code poetry
- the improvement of experimental genres from photograph narratives and located poetry via to gaming and interactive fiction
- experimental activities from Futurism and Surrealism to Postmodernism, Avant-Pop and Flarf.
Shedding new mild on frequently severely ignored terrain, the participants introduce this bright sector, outline its present nation, and provide interesting new views on its future.
This quantity is the precise advent for these drawing close the research of experimental literature for the 1st time or trying to additional their knowledge.
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Codifying literature’s depiction of speed “We believe that this wonderful world has been further enriched by a new beauty, the beauty of speed,” the founding manifesto declared (Marinetti 2006: 13). “Destruction of Syntax” (1913) counted the joys of living on an “Earth grown smaller through speed”: a constant desire to know what [our] contemporaries, in every part of the world, are up to. [. ] a need to communicate with all the peoples of the world. [. ] An immense expansion of our sense of humanity and an urgent need to determine, at every moment, our relations with the whole of mankind.
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