Index
283
absent narrator, 95
abstracting text, 279–80
acrostic structure, 39–40
Adaminaby (extract), 258
addition of words, 13, 30
adjectives, 33
advertising style, 60–1, 63
‘afterwardness’, 103
allusion, fictocriticism, 207
alternation, fictocriticism, 207
Amalgamemnon (word
association example), 10–11
ambiguities
crime novels, 193
focalisation, 98
lineation, 38–9
multiple focalisations, 107–8
America, avant-garde poetics,
167–9
American Psycho (novel), 142
American Woman in the Chinese
Hat, The (extract), 93
amplification of text, 30–1, 279
‘An All-time Favourite Motto’
(multiple focalisation), 101–3
analepses, 86, 104, 268
animated texts
new technologies, 244–6
person-in-action, 29–34
anthologies
concrete poems, 182
experimental poetry, 170
performance poetry, 215
anti-hero, 142
anti-narrative, 184
antonymy, 175
apologies website, 60–1
Armidale (extract), 259
arrow of time, 103–7
‘Artifice of Absorption’
(poem–essay), 206
As I Lay Dying (novel), 99
Ash Range, The (collage), 68–9
assassination of JFK, rewritten,
145
audience participation, 230–31
Australia, avant-garde poetics,
168
‘authoritarian’ narration, 86
autobiographical experience,
x–xi
avant-garde poetics, 167–70
Ayemenem (place), 256–7
‘Back’ (performance poem),
214
backwards
dialogue, 116–17
time movement, 149
Ballad of Narayama, The (film),
150
‘Balloon, The’ (short story
extract), 34–5
beer (word animation), 245
‘bells’ (sonic poem), 219
Beloved (novel), 103, 143
‘Bent’ (poem), 166
bias
narrator, 88
personal experience, 143–4
‘Bloody Chamber, The’ (story),
77–9
Bluebeard fairytale, 77–9
bodies, interaction with cities,
263–7
Body Artist, The, 22
body movement, intermedia
work, 223–4
Book of Illusions, The (novel), 32
‘cantilevering’ process, 30
Cat’s Eye (novel), 268
central character narrator, 89–90
centrifugal/centripetal poems,
171
characters
intermedia work, 222
loosely differentiated, 140–1
marginalised, 143–4, 195, 257
names, 141, 269
non-human, 143
one-trait, 141–3
postmodern, 135, 140
reborn, 140–1
traditional view, 139–40
‘types’, 36–7
chatting/chat shows, 123–4
Chimney Sweeper’s Boy, The
(novel), 95
chronology
out of order, 195
structuring, 104–7
Cinderella tale rewritten, 80–2
cities
bodies’ interactions, 263–7
multiple faces of, 260–3
split focus, 259–60
walk poems, 263–6
‘Cities and Memories’ (extract),
152
‘City and The Body, The’
(extract), 200–203
‘City of Glass’ (postmodern
fiction), 137, 140–1
clichés, 4
closed narratives, 107–8
codework, 248–49
‘Coil Supreme’ (script), 227–8
collaboration
dialogue, 125–8
improvisation, 226
collage
creating, 72–4
examples, 68–72
exercises, 66
explained, 67–8
sonic poems, 221–2
communication, rise and fall,
120–2
concrete poetry, 40, 182
concretising text, 279–80
consumerist city, 261, 263
contemporary images, 166–7
contemporary perspective
comment on values, 76
rewriting classic texts, 77–82
contradictions, focalisation, 98
control, knowing narrator,
94–5
conversation, satirised, 121
crime genre, 193
critical theory, 165
cross-dressing
fictocriticism, 204–10
generic, 200–204
literary analogy, 192
‘sonic’, 231
‘Crossing the Bar’ (poem),
172–3
cultural barriers, crossing, 144
cultural hybridity
diasporic city, 261
mixed genres, 203
