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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Stuart's Ravishment Descending Time / Peacher, Georgiana., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-04124-4203
Scope and Contents

This is the text for the unnumbered, silkscreened, unbound pages of the Artist Book of the same title, which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Microserfs / Coupland, Douglas., 1995

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Identifier: CC-30527-31955
Scope and Contents

The typography in this book is conventional and also experimental reproducing text on computer screens. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Miss America / Stern, Howard ; Kidd C., 1995

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Identifier: CC-03052-3097
Scope and Contents

Steven Heller in the NY Times Book Review writes that the "book's design, a complex melange of typographic hierarchies...a remarkable display of deconstructive, post-structural, post-modern experimentation - or words that explode across the page... Miss America owes a distinct debt to Apollinaire's Il Pleut, Marinetti's Zang Tumb Tumb and McLuhan's Medium... Unfortunately, Miss A. really doesn't go as far...while the design screams and shouts...actually pretty timid." It is profusely illustrated. This a first edition, first printing. Chip Kidd designed this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Mobile: Study for a Representation of the United States / Butor, Michel ; Richard Howard, translator., 1963

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Identifier: CC-21069-21478
Scope and Contents This is the first American edition of this book.eNotes internet summary: "Mobile: Study for the Representation of the United States has fifty chapters, and each chapter is more or less devoted to a different state, in alphabetical order, of the United States. The novel does not tell a story or relate a sequence of events. Instead, the disjointed details, mostly about small-town America, consist of information usually found in history books, atlases, encyclopedias, tourist brochures, and Howard Johnson menus. Some continuity is provided by a series of repetitions which are designed to illustrate the scope and diversity of the United States. For example, the first chapter is entitled "pitch dark in CORDOVA, ALABAMA, the Deep South" and that is all. The first word is not capitalized, nor is there a period at the end. The second chapter reads "pitch dark in CORDOVA, ALASKA, the Far North" and continues with a brief, nightmarish description of the land around Cordova. With no apparent...
Dates: 1963

Mores 2nd Edition / And, Miekal ; Was E., 2006

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Identifier: CC-48837-69872
Scope and Contents

This work was intended to be read as a single sentence and was dedicated to Liz Was. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Mores / And, Miekal ; Was E., 1988

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Identifier: CC-24615-25068
Scope and Contents

This work was intended to be read as a single sentence and was dedicated to Liz Was. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Morte per Elaboratore, 1968

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Identifier: CC-11436-11652
Scope and Contents

The text is set in multi-colored blocks of orange, rose or purple. Blocks of aqua are used with the words "cielo azzurro" and "cielo acqua." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Mount Soledad, 1996

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Identifier: CC-27882-29021
Scope and Contents

Polkinhorn's story revolves around his romance with a Cuban-American woman. The book is written in a stream of consciousness as a literary collage without punctuation. Karl Young provides an introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Movement in Slow Time / Rosenberg, Ann., 1990

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Identifier: CC-03309-3359
Scope and Contents

This novel parallels the structure of Dante's Inferno but reduces his vast array of sinners and saints to a few mortals who experienced their heavens and hells on earth in contemporary times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Mr. Watkins Got Drunk And Had To Be Carried Home (Facsimile Edition) / Nuttall, Jeff ; Burroughs WS ; Musgrove K ; Rowan J ; Cobbing B ; Pike J., 1979

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Identifier: CC-30464-31885
Scope and Contents

This book documents a party piece done in 1964 after a cut-up idea by William Burroughs. It is designated writers forum poets number twenty four. The cover of this edition differs from the original published in 1968 that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979