Experimental fiction
Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 561 Collections and/or Records:
Volvox, 1981
Item
Identifier: CC-48874-69911
Scope and Contents
The edition consisted of 26 hard cover copies and 175 soft bound copies. The text does not include any periods though other punctuation marks are present. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1981
W or the Memory of Childhood, 1988
Item
Identifier: CC-31305-32778
Scope and Contents
This novel contains two distinct alternating biographies: the first is an allegorical story of W, a bizarre, mythical island civilization, symbolizing the Holocaust. It is printed in italics. The second text is Perec's memories of his childhood in Paris. Perec writes in his introduction that the two stories "are in fact inextricably bound up with each other, as though neither could exist on its own, as though it was only their coming together, the distant light they cast on each other, that could make apparent what is never quite said in one,never quite said in the other, but said only in their fragile overlapping." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1988
War, the musical / Fitterman, Robert ; Rowntree, Dirk., 2006
Item
Identifier: CC-62661-48788
Scope and Contents
Notes on this book by Robert Fitterman - web site: Dirk & I have a very active, over-the-shoulder style of collaboration. As with our earlier project, cedars estate (www.ubu.com), Dirk & I tend to sit in front of the computer together and look at images and text and have conversations about the implications of each choice. In War, the musical I produced a text, first, comprised solely of web language, and Dirk also chose to compose with mostly downloadable, digitized images. The intersections became complex when we discussed the larger frame of our thinking processes. For instance, Dirk became engaged with ideas about commodification and institutional critique that echo my own ideas about how we, as Americans, process war through media. Dirk saw, in the text, an engagement with the media that he, in turn, wanted to maximize in the design of the book. The blank pages, black pages, odd ball fonts, etc., all contribute to his interest in presenting a "product" that draws our...
Dates:
2006
Weed-Green, 1985
Item — Box Ahe-Alt: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-26326-26793
Scope and Contents
Edited and designed by Liz Was, text by Swoh Allen, and drawings by A.W.Vandenburgh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1985
Welcome Memory / Evason, Greg., 1991
Item
Identifier: CC-13387-13688
What. No.1/Oct / Kevin Connolly, Jason Sherman, editors ; Hood W ; Dedora B ; Ross S ; Laba M ; curry jw ; Power N ; Barwin G ; Necakov L ; Davey F., 1985
Item
Identifier: CC-40924-42901
What the Ambulance Driver Said (a story with sentence diagram) / Wodening, Jane ; Gallo P., 1998
Item
Identifier: CC-29126-30471
Scope and Contents
Printed by Phil Gallo at the Hermetic Press. This was a New Year's gift from Steve Clay, proprietor of the Granary Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1998
What's Hecuba to Him or He to Hecuba? / Cagnone, Nanni., 1975
Item
Identifier: CC-16682-17037
Whos Listening out There, 1979
Item — Box 315: [Barcode: 31858072490836]
Identifier: CC-26914-27387
Willie Masters Lonesome Wife / Gass, William H.., 1971
Item
Identifier: CC-43047-45094
Scope and Contents
Cloud books provided the following annotation: "Gass's attempt to direct attention to the process of how literature unfolds on the page and his request that both critics and raeders pay more attention to the "building blocks of literature" - the way words are used in physically constructing the shape and edifice of the book - was brillaintly executed in this experimental essay/novella. The work embodies Gass's view that literature is language and that a reader should respond to the sensuous body of language with the same sort of excitement and participation that he would to any other sensual experience. Narrated by Baby Babs Masters, the lonseome wife of the title who is lady language herself, Willie Masters emphasizes the sensuous qualities of language - its colors, sounds, shapes, and textures - in almost every conceivable fashion. Each of the four sections of the book is printed on different-colored, different-textured pages; the photographs and large variety of graphic and...
Dates:
1971
Willie Masters Lonesome Wife / Gass, William H.., 1968
Item
Identifier: CC-43048-45095
Scope and Contents
Cloud books provided the following annotation: "Gass's attempt to direct attention to the process of how literature unfolds on the page and his request that both critics and raeders pay more attention to the "building blocks of literature" - the way words are used in physically constructing the shape and edifice of the book - was brillaintly executed in this experimental essay/novella. The work embodies Gass's view that literature is language and that a reader should respond to the sensuous body of language with the same sort of excitement and participation that he would to any other sensual experience. Narrated by Baby Babs Masters, the lonseome wife of the title who is lady language herself, Willie Masters emphasizes the sensuous qualities of language - its colors, sounds, shapes, and textures - in almost every conceivable fashion. Each of the four sections of the book is printed on different-colored, different-textured pages; the photographs and large variety of graphic and...
Dates:
1968
Willie Masters Lonesome Wife / Gass, William H.., 1968
Item
Identifier: CC-43049-45096
Scope and Contents
Cloud books provided the following annotation: "Gass's attempt to direct attention to the process of how literature unfolds on the page and his request that both critics and raeders pay more attention to the "building blocks of literature" - the way words are used in physically constructing the shape and edifice of the book - was brillaintly executed in this experimental essay/novella. The work embodies Gass's view that literature is language and that a reader should respond to the sensuous body of language with the same sort of excitement and participation that he would to any other sensual experience. Narrated by Baby Babs Masters, the lonseome wife of the title who is lady language herself, Willie Masters emphasizes the sensuous qualities of language - its colors, sounds, shapes, and textures - in almost every conceivable fashion. Each of the four sections of the book is printed on different-colored, different-textured pages; the photographs and large variety of graphic and...
Dates:
1968
Willie Masters Lonesome Wife / Gass, William H.., 1992
Item
Identifier: CC-43050-45097
Scope and Contents
Cloud books provided the following annotation: "Gass's attempt to direct attention to the process of how literature unfolds on the page and his request that both critics and readers pay more attention to the "building blocks of literature" - the way words are used in physically constructing the shape and edifice of the book - was brilliantly executed in this experimental essay/novella. The work embodies Gass's view that literature is language and that a reader should respond to the sensuous body of language with the same sort of excitement and participation that he would to any other sensual experience. Narrated by Baby Babs Masters, the lonsome wife of the title who is lady language herself, Willie Masters emphasizes the sensuous qualities of language - its colors, sounds, shapes, and textures - in almost every conceivable fashion. Each of the four sections of the book is printed on different-colored, different-textured pages; the photographs and large variety of graphic and...
Dates:
1992
Word Rain / Gins, Madeline., 1969
Item
Identifier: CC-10091-10292
Xam / Bogle, Ann ; And, Miekal., 2005
Item
Identifier: CC-44342-46491
XEBEC / Madson, Jerry., 1981
Item
Identifier: CC-37924-39804
Xorandor, 1986
Item
Identifier: CC-21409-21820
Yours for the Telling by Raymond Queneau / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila., 1982
Item
Identifier: CC-03737-3808
Scope and Contents
This identical in design to the French version, Un Conte a Votre Facon, that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1982
Zeichen Schmelzen Sinn / Zauner, Hansjorg., 1990
Item
Identifier: CC-00091-94
Scope and Contents
Zauner added a collage even though the ordinary edition is not called for. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1990
Zeitung. No.1-2 / Dencker KP., 1976
Item
Identifier: CC-00094-97
Scope and Contents
Includes a section that reproduces Dencker's experimental novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1976