Index 285improvisation
collective, 226
dialogue, 117–18
origins, 224
performance texts, 214
practice, 224–5
scores, 227–8
strategies, 225–6
words/gestures, 223
‘In Parallel’ (visual poem), 182,
187
indigenous marginalisation,
257
indigenous writing, 169
information, controlled release,
94–5
interactivity
hypermedia, 250
hypertext, 242–3
intercutting, textual, 70–1
intermedia work
explained, 222
making, 222–4
intertextuality, xi, 65
‘Interviews for the Freedom of
Dreams’ (prose poem), 15–16
inversion technique
new worlds, 153
synoptic novel, 194–6, 199
Invisible Cities (novel), 152
Isidora (fictitious place), 152
isomorphism, body and city,
266–7
Jane Eyre (novel), 77, 120
‘Jouissance’ (visual poem), 183,
188–9
juxtaposition
collage, 70, 72–3
hypermedia, 249–51
hypertext, 239
intermedia work, 222
literary collage, 67
new worlds, 153
past/present, 105–6
of textual chunks, 68–9
time–space compression,
268–70
‘Klupzy Girl, The’ (poem), 163–4
knowing narrator, 94–5
Lacanian mirror stage, 158
Lady Oracle (novel), 32
landscape description, 256–7
language
avant-garde poetics, 168–70
bilingualism, 217
code-based, 248–9
constructed, 179–82
creating, 181–82, 248–9
fictocritical approach, 206
futuristic, 151–2
making up, 150–2
morphing, 244–5
polylingualism, 217
self-expression, 157
see also words
‘Language Poetry’ (movement),
167
Language Poets, The, 167–9, 183,
204–5
language-based strategies
exercises, 4
fundamental approach, 3–5
poetry, 37–46
phrase manipulation, 11–17
word association, 5–11
word games, 4–5
word pools, 17–18
‘Last to Go’ (short revue), 120–1
layers, hypertext, 247
leapfrogging, word building, 7
‘Learning to Drive: Reading the
Signs’ (fictocritical writing),
207
Left Hand of Darkness, The
(novel), 149, 151
‘Left’ (poem), 159–60
‘Lesson from the Cockerel, A’
(poem), 179–80
Letter for Queen Victoria, A
(play), 114–15
letter ommission, 174
letters in fiction, 60
lexical experimentation, 179–82
Libra (novel), 145
‘ “Like Musical Instruments...”’
(poem), 172
linearity, 49–50
lineation, poetry, 38–9
linguistic experimentation
cyberwriting, 240, 248–9
discontinuity, 178–9
games and systems, 173–5
grammar, 175–8
lexical experimentation,
179–82
metaphor/metonymy, 171–3
prose poetry, 182–6
syntax, 175–8
visual poem, 182–3
‘linguistically innovative
poetries’, 168
links, hypertext, 239–44
lipograms, 174
‘listenspread’ (new word), 151
literary transformations, 59–62
‘Living Alone: The New Spinster
(Some Notes)’ (prose), 196–9
location see place
loops, hypertextual, 243
Lost in Thought (extract), 127
Love, etc, (novel), 22–3, 99
lyric, postmodern see
postmodern lyrics
lyrics, postmodern see
postmodern lyrics
Magic Toyshop, The (person-in-
action), 31–2
‘Make-Up’ (poem), 177–78
mapping worlds, 255–7marginalisation, character,
143–4, 195, 257
mesostic structure, 39–40
metafictional narrator, 88–9
metaphors
city/body, 266–7
developing, 41
and metonymy, 171–2
‘mixed’, 172
morphing, 172–3
poetry, 40–5
metonymy, 171–2
‘Mexico City’ (script), 227
‘mezangelle’ language, 248–9
microphones, use of, 231–3
mid-past, 104–7
mimesis, 139
mimicry, 163–4
minor character narrator, 90–1
mirror
images, 19–25
Lacanian stage, 158
possible aspects, 20
rear-view, 22–3
‘Mirror, The’ (poem), 20–1
‘Mirror’ (poem), 23–4, 46
‘Mirrors’ (short story), 24
mixed genres
exercises, 193
time–space compression, 270
writing, 200–204
see also hypertext
modernist fictions, 147
monologue, 226
movement, sense of, 31–3
movements see experimental
movements
movies, animated text, 246
multicultural writing, 169
multilayering, 50, 56–7
multiple focalisations, 98–103,
107–8
multiplicity, collage, 73
multi-scene movie, 246
multitracking, vocal, 220, 226
music
accompaniment, 220
hypermedia, 250
intermedia work, 224
sonic poetry, 220
musings, philosophical, 199
My Life (prose poem), 58–9,
184–6
Nachträglichkeit, 103
names, character, 141, 269
narratee, 91–2
narratives
closed, 107–8
definition, 86
developing, 97–8
as genre, 84
open, 107–8
power dynamics, 86
restructuring, 103–7
writing exercises, 85