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Experimental fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

Oscar Christ and the Immaculate Conception 2nd edition / Nuttall, Jeff., 1987

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Identifier: CC-45027-47203
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Designated Writers Forum Poets #23. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Oulipo Laboratory / Queneau, Raymond ; Calvino, Italio ; Fournel, Paul ; Jouet, Jacques ; Berge, Claude ; Harry Mathews, translator ; Ian White, translator ; Perec G ; Pastior O ; Metail M ; Duchamp M ; Arnaud N., 1995

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Identifier: CC-29411-30776
Scope and Contents Oulipo is an acronym for the French word meaning "Workshop for Potential Literature." The group was formed in 1960 by Raymond Queneau, a celebrated novelist and poet who was not an inconsequential amateur mathematician and his friend, Francois Le Lionnais, a chessmaster who shared his friend's love for mathematics. Queneau had been struggling with a literary task of immense complexity, his 100 trillion poems and asked Le Lionnais for practical assistance.When they discusses this problem, their conversations turned to the possibility of incorporating mathematical structures into the process of literary creation. Queneau had ready been doing this in his novels, but no one noticed until he mentioned it. Queneau and Le Lionnais soon widened their investigations beyond mathematics to include all forms of artificial restriction in literature. As an Oulipean term, restriction means a constraining method or system or rule that can be precisely defined. All literature is limited by the...
Dates: 1995

Pad / Zultanski, Steven., 2010

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Identifier: CC-56321-9999745
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: PAD is a catalog of the author's attempt to lift each and every item in his apartment with his dick. Nothing is spared his strength"”from the furniture to the walls, from the coins in the coin jar to the cards in the card decks. It is a parody of masculinity, a cheap joke, and a precise spatial mapping of an intimate space using the imprecise coordinates of a physical body. The poem serves as a voyeuristic window into the private life of one man via his private property. The exhibitionism is twofold: upon reading this book you will know how strong his dick is (sort of) and exactly which commodities from the proceedings of his daily life, though the drama of those proceedings remains absent. The dick, in its new omnipresence, is de-eroticized. Nothing could be less sexy than a dick that doesn't go away, that is never hidden, and that turns up in every place you look, even the garbage can. On the other hand, the banal contents of his apartment are suddenly re-animated by...
Dates: 2010

page / Weiner, Hannah., 2002

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Identifier: CC-47755-68774
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The book has three long poems, Page, Articles, and Same Page and was published posthumously. Weiner was born in 1928 and died in 1997. These poems are written in the experimental style of David Antin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Panopticon, 1984

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Identifier: CC-38174-40069
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The theme of this book is writing for an experimental film. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Papers and Reminiscenses / Doyle, Arthur Conan., 1983

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Identifier: CC-15513-15840
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Through a series of letters, documents, diary entries, newspapers and typed sheets, Dr. John H. Watson reveals his first case with Arthur Conan Doyle. Supposedly, the material was rediscovered in 1983. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Paragraph. No.3 / Rose D ; Saleh D., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38960-40896
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Dan Rose aka Jabonera Porte-Savon contributes a paragraph under his nom de plume and describes how he came to select it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Phinger Catalogue. No.1., 1988

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Identifier: CC-03858-3931
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Designed and produced by Marksteen Adamson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Physical Language Laboratory: Listen: I know what you're thinking]. No.6 / Leda Black., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29888-31275
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The lift-up panels on the print depict a cartoon and an advertisement underneath them that has been collaged to the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998