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Experimental fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 577 Collections and/or Records:

Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary by John Gordon / Joyce, James., 1986

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Identifier: CC-43928-46038
Scope and Contents

This is the only full-length study of Finnegans Wake to outline and catalog the immense amount of naturalistc detail from which Joyce built the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

First Adventures of Col and Sem / Waber, Dan., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46410-49135
Scope and Contents

Also designated publication #21. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So / Stewart, Ian ; Abbott E., 2001

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Identifier: CC-35885-37646
Scope and Contents

This book is published as a sequel to "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott Abbott, published in 1884, in which all the inhabitants are two dimensional. Stewart, who is a professor of mathematics, created this contemporary guide of a journey through Mathiverse. His main character, Victoria Line, explores the "present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time and matter and modern geometrics and their applications." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Footnotes 2nd Ed. / Matthews, Paul, editor., 1975

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Identifier: CC-62582-47744
Scope and Contents

The first edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1971. From the Preface by Matthews: "While rummagine in my attic recently I discovered the manuscript which is presented here. Unfortunately the top half had been seriously corroded by what forensic experts assure me is black treacle, and much is illedgible. The book was clearly some sort of autobiographical sketch (whose we don't know) written in a somehwat poetical style. Footnotes had been added in ink by someone who obviously knew the author fairly well; these have survived because the treacle did not affect the bottom part of the manuscript. They are presented together with the fragments which remain, plus the original index which mercifully survived complete. In my opinion all one ever writes is footnotes to what one might have been.". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Footnotes 2nd Ed. / Matthews, Paul, editor., 1971

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Identifier: CC-62583-47745
Scope and Contents

The second edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1975. From the Preface by Matthews: "While rummagine in my attic recently I discovered the manuscript which is presented here. Unfortunately the top half had been seriously corroded by what forensic experts assure me is black treacle, and much is illedgible. The book was clearly some sort of autobiographical sketch (whose we don't know) written in a somehwat poetical style. Footnotes had been added in ink by someone who obviously knew the author fairly well; these have survived because the treacle did not affect the bottom part of the manuscript. They are presented together with the fragments which remain, plus the original index which mercifully survived complete. In my opinion all one ever writes is footnotes to what one might have been.". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Footnotes / Matthews, Paul, editor., 1971

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Identifier: CC-62584-47746
Scope and Contents

The second edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1975. From the Preface by Matthews: "While rummagine in my attic recently I discovered the manuscript which is presented here. Unfortunately the top half had been seriously corroded by what forensic experts assure me is black treacle, and much is illedgible. The book was clearly some sort of autobiographical sketch (whose we don't know) written in a somehwat poetical style. Footnotes had been added in ink by someone who obviously knew the author fairly well; these have survived because the treacle did not affect the bottom part of the manuscript. They are presented together with the fragments which remain, plus the original index which mercifully survived complete. In my opinion all one ever writes is footnotes to what one might have been.". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Foreshortenings And Other Stories / Kostelanetz, Richard., 1978

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Identifier: CC-01213-1244
Scope and Contents

This book, that is also designated Tuumba No.14, was printed by Lyn Hejinian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Foreshortenings and Other Stories / Kostelanetz, Richard., 1978

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Identifier: CC-37079-38920
Scope and Contents

This book, that is also designated Tuumba No.14, was printed by Lyn Hejinian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Frederick Ted Castle, 67, Art Critic / Johnson, Ken; Ashbery J; Malanga G; Debord G; Acker K; Katz L., 2006

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Identifier: CC-45057-47233
Scope and Contents

Founde Vanishing Rotating Triangle Press with Leandro Katz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Fuck You Publication: Roosevelt after Inauguration. / William S. Burroughs ; Ginsberg A., 1964

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Identifier: CC-12048-12272
Scope and Contents

Front and back covers were drawn by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Ganglia: We Sleep Inside Each Other All [Deluxe Copy]. No.4 / bill bissett., 1966

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Identifier: CC-21150-21559
Scope and Contents

This issue includes an introduction about bissett's life, family and work written by Sam Perry. An essay about bissett's typographic style was written by bp Nichol. According to David Mason Books: bill bissett 1998, although bissett states that this is his first book, a noted bibliographer believes otherwise. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Ganglia: We Sleep Inside Each Other All. No.4 / bill bissett., 1966

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Identifier: CC-21896-22308
Scope and Contents

This issue includes an introduction by Sam Perry on bissett's life, family and work, and an essay by bp Nichol describing bissett's typographic style. According to David Mason Books: bill bissett 1998, although bissett states that this is his first book, a noted bibliographer believes otherwise. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Gedanken Haie (The Raw Shark Texts) / Hall, Steven ; Marcus Ingendaay, translator ; Susanne Hornfeck, translator ; Sonja Hauser, translator., 2007

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Identifier: CC-52244-73366
Scope and Contents This is the first German edition of this book.Audrey Niffenegger Amazon.com writes: "Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time. Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his...
Dates: 2007

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture / Coupland, Douglas., 1991

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Identifier: CC-20838-21246
Scope and Contents

Includes definitions and images relevent to Generation X in the margins of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Getting Inside Jack Kerouac's Head / Morris, Simon ; Goldsmith K ; Thurston N., 2009

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Identifier: CC-52304-73426
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Nick Thurston and the introduction provided by Kenneth Goldsmith who posed that a retyping of a book would provide the same inspiration to writers as art students derive from copying old masters' paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Giacometti Spaghetti / Robinson, Bryan., 2002

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Identifier: CC-42050-44051
Scope and Contents

The book consists of brief phrases in varied font sizes. Some the pages are adaptations of the texts in Wyndam Lewis's Blast magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002