Biography andan experimental fiction writers
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Experimental literature
Genre of literature
Experimental literature is a genre of literature that is generally "difficult to define with any sort of precision."[1] It experiments with the conventions of literature, including boundaries of genres and styles; for example, it can be written in the form of prose narratives or poetry, but the text may be set on the page in differing configurations than that of normal prose paragraphs or in the classical stanza form of verse.[1] It may also incorporate art or photography. Furthermore, while experimental literature was traditionally handwritten, the digital age has seen an exponential use of writing experimental works with word processors.[1]
Early history
[edit]The first text generally cited in this category is Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759).[citation needed] This text occurs so early in the standard history of the novel that one can't refe
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Experiments in Life-Writing
Overview
- Editors:
- Lucia Boldrini
Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Julia Novak
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures
- Sheds light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation and nyhet in modern Europe
- Features an interview with award-winning biographical novelist Janice Galloway
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing tillsammans scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biogra
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Marisa Crane on the Finer Points of Experimental Fiction
I’ve always loved experimental writing—in fact, it’s my favorite type of work. From books like Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, which is written in the form of a Chilean aptitude test, and Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison, a novel in over 500 fragments, to Carmen Maria Machado’s masterpiece novella, Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU, experimental work never ceases to inspire and delight me.
When I read Jenny Boully’s The Body: An Essay, which is an entire book comprised of footnotes to an invisible text, I think my brain exploded. Of course, everyone who picks up a book interprets it differently, but Boully takes it to the extreme—every reader must imagine and interact with a text that isn’t there (but also is?). And one of my earliest inspirations, Elizabeth Crane, has a story in her collection, Turf, called “Justin Bieber’s Hair in a Box,” whi