Index 287‘ProseThetic Memories’
(collaboration), 60–1, 70, 127
questions, different responses,
112–13
quotations, inclusion of, 205,
207–9
racism
dissident lyric, 165
slavery fictions, 103, 143
radio pieces, dialogue, 111
rap, 5
readerly texts, 108
realism
characters, 139, 141–2
described, 28–9
dialogue, 113–14
examples, 29–34
exercises, 28
inclusion of detail, 33–4
sense of movement, 31–3
visual aspect, 31
rearrangement of text, 280
recombination technique, new
worlds, 153
recycling texts
described, 65–6
exercises, 66
found text, 74–7
strategies, 66
see also collage; rewriting
‘Red Wheelbarrow, The’ (poem),
37–8
referent-based strategies
exercises, 4
explained, 3–4, 18–19
improvisation, 225
mirror as medium, 19–25
refinement, 30–1
reflections, 199
reiteration, 76–7
Renaissance man extract, 270–1
repetition
exercises, 49–50
non-linear structure, 51–2
sonic poetry, 219
representation, word use, 27
restructuring narrative, 103–7
‘Revolution in Poetic Language’
(essay), 169–70
rewriting
approach to, 79–80
changing perspective, 77–82
Cinderella tale, 80–82
historical events, 144–7
satirical, 36
surrealist, 35
rhyming verse, 5
rhythms
intermedia work, 223–4
sonic poetry, 220
Riddley Walker (novel), 151
‘Riting of the Runda, The’
(constructed language),
180–1
Robber Bride, The (novel), 100
‘.romance (1981)’ (performance
poem), 71, 220
Runda language, 181
‘Running Out of Words’
(intermedia work), 223–4
sampling, sonic poetry, 220–1
satire
about conversation, 121
advertising style, 60–1, 63
apologies website, 60–1
exercises, 28
explained, 36–7
‘School of English’ (non-literary
form), 61–2
science fiction, 147–8
scores, 227–30
second person
narrator, 91–2
split self, 158–9
‘Secret Places’ (performance
work), 141, 268–70, 272–5
self-expression, language, 157
semantic flexibility, 177
semiotics, x
sensory city, 262
sentences, prose poetry, 183–6
sexual identities, gendered city,
261–2
sexualised city, 261–2
‘Shantung’ (poem), 162
shaping text, 280
‘shifgrethor’ (new word), 151
short stories, dialogue, 111
signified/signifier relationship
explained, 4–5
word association, 6–7
similes
rhythmic poem, 224
use in poetry, 40–5
simulacra, 268
simultaneity, 50, 55–6, 183
single-scene movie, 246
Six O’Clock News, The
(poem/sound recording),
217
slam poets, 216
slavery
marginalised characters, 143
narrative restructuring, 103
smell, sensory stimulation, 262
social interaction, alternative
dialogues, 112–13
social organisation, new worlds,
149–50
sonic poetry/writing
creating, 219–22
exercise, 213
explained, 218
sonic relationship, words, 6
Sophie’s story
central character narrator,
89–90
destabilised subject position,
92–3intrusive narrator, 88–9
knowing narrator, 94–5
minor character narrator, 90–1
multiple focalisations, 99
open/closed narrative, 107–8
second person narration, 91–2
third person narration, 87–8,
96
time structure, 106–7
sound, intermedia work, 224
‘Sound, The’ (prose poem), 124–5
sound poem, 218
soundAFFECTs (animated text),
245
spacing, poetry, 39–40
‘spinster’ term, 199
splintered self, 160–1
split life, 159–60
split screens, creating, 246–7
split self
changed subject position, 93
mirror images, 19
poem, 161
postmodern lyrics, 157–61
psychoanalytic theory, 158
second person, 158–9
spoken word, 215–18
stage, performance presentation,
231–3
Stein, Sturken and Thoreau: A
collage, 70–1
‘Step Away From Them, A’ (walk
poem), 264–5
‘Stillborn’ (poem), 171
storylines
alternative, 139
conflicting, 138–9
hypertext fiction, 239
intermedia work, 222
see also plots
structuralist movement, 49
structure
linear, 50
multilayering, 56–7
numerical systems, 57–9
principles, 48–9
repetition, 51–2
simultaneity, 55–6
variation, 52–5
writing exercises, 49–50
subject positions, 92–4, 270
subjectivity, xi
substitution, word, 12–13,
14–15, 30, 279
subtraction, word, 13
subversions of plot, 136–9
‘sucking on remembrance:
encounters with the vampire
and other histories of the
body’ (fictocriticism), 207–9
‘Sunset Debris’ (prose poem),
184
‘surface’ characters, 141–3
surrealism
exercises, 28
explained, 34–5