The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415570008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 496 str.

Joe Bray

Opis

What is a literary text? How have 'experimental' works expanded the boundaries of the literary, and what are the effects of new media on literary criticism? In this age of gadgets, widgets, twitters and blogs, Sony Readers and Apple iPads, the boundaries of what we consider literature and narrative have been blurred beyond recognition. The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature maps this expansive and diverse field, looking at: the history of the term and the debate on what constitutes 'experimental literature' the impact of new media on literature, including digital literacies and hypertext genres and different forms of experimental texts from graphic novels through to gaming, dance, and interactive performance experimental movements such as modernism, futurism, surrealism, absurdism and postmodernism. Shedding new light on often critically neglected terrain, the contributors introduce this vibrant field, define its current state and offer exciting new perspectives on its future.

Recenzje

"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