Experimental Literature Links
Introduction
This article is a list of links to authors, works, and categories in experimental literature. Its purpose is to give you a starting point for exploring works in this set of genres.
I've based the list's organization on The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (RCEL), a collection of scholarly essays on the subject.
This project is a work in progress.
How to use this list
If a category is well established in the field, I've linked to its Wikipedia article. If the author of the RCEL article was conducting their own survey of the category, I've listed the authors and works they cover with links to Wikipedia and LibraryThing wherever corresponding pages are available. I've also included links to a work's full text when that's available and links to background information from other sources.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia articles will give you background information on their subject, and they'll usually contain bibliographies that will point you to works related to that subject, such as works in the category or works by the author.
LibraryThing
LibraryThing is a social library catalog website that lets you catalog your collection. Here I'm using it for its recommendation features and its links to other sites.
When you visit a work's LibraryThing page, you can find related works in the "LibraryThing Recommendations" section and the "Member recommendations" section. You can also click on the tags users have assigned to it. Each tag link takes you to a page for that tag, which lists other works that have been assigned it, as well as related tags, subjects, and tagmashes, which are combinations of tags. You can create your own tagmashes.
In the upper right sidebar of a work's LibraryThing page, you'll find links to its corresponding page on other catalog websites, such as Amazon, Google Books, and WorldCat, a shared catalog of physical libraries worldwide. These sites will often let you look through a preview of the book. They'll also give you ways to find other related works, usually by recommendations or subject links on the work's page. If you're logged in, you can edit this section to show links from a long list of other sites.
General
Experimental literature - Wikipedia
Bray, Joe, Alison Gibbons, and Brian McHale, eds. The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. Routledge Companions. London: Routledge, 2015. [LibraryThing]
The historical avant-gardes
Modernist-era experimentalism
Futurism
Futurism (literature) - Wikipedia
Expressionism
Surrealism
Absurdism
Postmodernist experimentalism
Postwar experimental poetry
The New American Poetry 1945–1960 - Wikipedia
The nouveau roman and Tel Quel
Lettrism and situationism
Situationist International - Wikipedia
OuLiPo and proceduralism
Constrained writing - Wikipedia
Metafiction
Postmodern literature
Postmodern literature - Wikipedia
Experiments with identity
Twentieth century avant-garde women writers
Twentieth century avant-garde African-American poets
Anglophone postcolonial poetry
Postcolonial literature - Wikipedia
The new experimentalism
Avant-Pop
Post-postmodernism
Post-postmodernism - Wikipedia
Globalization and transnationalism
Altermodernist fiction
Manifestos and Ars Poetica
Post-criticism
Experiment now: printed matter
Experiments with language
Language poetry
Concrete poetry and prose
Found poetry and "uncreative writing"
Words in visual art
Literary inauthenticity
Experiments with narrative and fiction
Unnatural narratives
Impossible worlds
Experimental life writing
Experimental genre fiction
Experiments with form and design
Graphic narrative
Alternative comics - Wikipedia
Multimodal literature
Information design
Interactive fiction
Interactive fiction - Wikipedia
Experiment now: beyond the page
The digital age
Digital fiction
Code poetry and new-media literature
Computer gaming
Virtual autobiography
Planned updates
- Add a description for each category.
- Add authors and works for the categories that only have general links.
- Add links from other sites.