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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:

squeezing molly / Crombie, John ; Joyce J., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-46387-49112
Scope and Contents

The text prints (with help from Pagemaker) Molly Bloom's monologue from Ulysses, compressed, with apologies to James Joyce! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Stabbed to Death with Artificial Respiration (A surrealistic detective story, after Hans Arp), 1977

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Identifier: CC-38311-40208
Scope and Contents

Nations wrote the text of this novel and Amos illustrated it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Starker Toback, 1963

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-22580-23006

Story So Far, The. No.4 / Steve McCaffery, bp Nichol, editors ; Andrews B ; Barreto-Rivera R ; Bowering G ; Broudy H ; Cohen M ; Dutton P ; Garnet E ; Gilbert G ; Griffiths B ; McCaffery S ; Nichol bp ; Riddell J ; Vaughn-James M ; Young D ; Riddell J., 1976

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Identifier: CC-02462-2502
Scope and Contents

Includes long diaristic, experimental visual/verbal, prose/poetry work by Hart Broudy. The title of this issue is actually "The Story So Four." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Stroker. No.26-27 / Miller H ; Stettner I., 1983

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Identifier: CC-02363-2403
Scope and Contents

Edited by Irving Stettner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Superprose / Taylor, Thomas Lowe., 2003

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Identifier: CC-62531-47685
Scope and Contents

The book consists of short stories; the experimental nature relates to the lenghty sentences which in one story comprises six pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Surplus Value Books, Catalogue Number 13 / Moody, Rick., 1999

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Identifier: CC-42953-44997
Scope and Contents

The author provides a story line in the annotations to made-up books dealing with his infatuation with a character named Anna Feldman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions / Abbott, Edwin ; Stewart, Ian., 2002

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Identifier: CC-53186-74338
Scope and Contents This copy is the first edition, first printing.Amazon.com Review: The product of an agreeably dotty cleric named Edwin Abbott Abbott and first published in 1884, Flatland distills all that the Victorian era knew of higher mathematics--and then some--into a witty, complex novel of ideas.Ian Stewart, the author of the equally witty sequel, Flatterland--which adds to Abbott's store of science the key discoveries made since--does a superb job of explaining the original book's enigmas, allusions, ironies, implausibilities, and what Douglas Hofstadter would call "metamagical themas." Among other things, Stewart comments on Abbott's comments on such things as the nature/nurture controversy, the fourth dimension and beyond, the role of multidimensional spaces in economic systems, infinite series and perfect squares, celestial mechanics, and other matters close to the hearts of cosmologists and science buffs alike. Stewart's notes make an entertaining and learned addition to an already...
Dates: 2002

The Arrival of the Poet in the City / Logue, Christopher., 1963

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Identifier: CC-28610-29900
Scope and Contents

The cover, designed by Logue, consists of found concrete poetry, The numbered copies were printed on Holland van Gelder Paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

The Black Debt, 1989

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Identifier: CC-38385-40289
Scope and Contents

The book consists of two novellas, "Lag" and "Effect of Cellophane." Lag was written with only commas and Effect of Cellophane without punctuation. Both stories are printed without paragraph separations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Book of Breething, 1970

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Identifier: CC-21034-21443
Scope and Contents

This book was illustrated by Bob Gale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970