Literature
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Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts or work of art, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, plus other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale.
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Ergodic literature
Ergodic literature is literature that requires special effort to comprehend or read, perhaps due to a "non linear" structure. Ergodic literature demands an active role of the reader, such that they become "users" who may need to perform complex semiotic operations to construct the reading.
Examples
- Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs, to greater or lesser extent composed using the cut-up technique
- "The Night (Alone) by Richard Meltzer is a relatively unknown work of brilliance
- Composition No.1, a novel on cards written by Marc Saporta in 1961
- Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel and Landscape Painted With Tea by Milorad Pavic
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Rayuela by Julio Cortazar
- 253, both the print and online versions, by Geoff Ryman
- The Dionaea House by Eric Heisserer
- The Unfortunates by B. S. Johnson
- Other Electricities by Ander Monson
- Ibid: A Life by Mark Dunn
- Riddley Walker
- City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Literature
author - books - fiction - language - literal - literary - novel - paper - poetry - printing - prose - text - translation - word - writer - writing
Genres
banned books - comic books - cult fiction - detective fiction - giallo - erotic fiction - genre fiction - gothic novel - horror fiction - meta fiction - modern literature - mystery fiction - non-fiction - picaresque - postmodern novel - pulp fiction - romance - ribaldry - science fiction
Reference
bibliography - biography - dictionary - encyclopedia - movie book - music book - sex manuals
Theory
lit crit - literature - literary criticism - literary genre - literary theory - literary technique
People
A - Kathy Acker - Dante Alighieri - Martin Amis - Guillaume Apollinaire - Pietro Aretino - Aristophanes - Aristotle - AntoninArtaud - Henry Spencer Ashbee - B - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - J G Ballard - Iain Banks - Georges Bataille - Charles Baudelaire - Sylvia Beach - Simone de Beauvoir - Ben Sira - Maurice Blanchot - William Blake - Giovanni Boccaccio - Bertolt Brecht - Restif de la Bretonne - Charles Bukowski - Mikhail Bulgakov - William S. Burroughs - Lord Byron - C - Angela Carter - Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Miguel de Cervantes - Geoffrey Chaucer - John Cleland - Robert Coover - D - Denis Diderot - Jenny Diski - Fyodor Dostoevsky - E - Bret Easton Ellis - Paul Éluard - F - J. Sheridan Le Fanu - G - Théophile Gautier - Jean Genet - William Gibson - Maurice Girodias - Nikolai Gogol - Alain Robbe-Grillet - Gutenberg - H - H. Rider Haggard - Knut Hamsun - W.F. Hermans - E.T.A. Hoffmann - Michel Houellebecq - Aldous Huxley - Joris Karl Huysmans - J - Alfred Jarry - Elfriede Jelinek - James Joyce - K - Franz Kafka - Jack Kerouac - Ken Kesey - Stephen King - Pierre Klossowski - L - Comte de Lautréamont - D.H. Lawrence - Gaston Leroux - Eric Losfeld - Pierre Louys - H. P. Lovecraft - M - Norman Mailer - André Pieyre de Mandiargues - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Henry Miller - Octave Mirbeau - Alberto Moravia - Alfred de Musset - N - Vladimir Nabokov - André de Nerciat - Anais Nin - O - Joyce Carol Oates - Ovid - P - Jean-Jacques Pauvert - Edgar Allan Poe - Plato - Mervyn Peake - Samuel Pepys - Luigi Pirandello - Q - Thomas De Quincey - R - François Rabelais - Pauline Réage - Anne Rice - Arthur Rimbaud - Edogawa Rampo - Barney Rosset Jean-Jacques Rousseau - S - Marquis de Sade - Jean Paul Sartre - Arthur Schnitzler - Shakespeare - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Gertrude Stein - Jonathan Swift - Algernon Swinburne - T - Jim Thompson - Alexander Trocchi - V - Paul Valéry - Jules Verne - Gore Vidal - Boris Vian - Voltaire - W - Horace Walpole - Edgar Wallace - H.G. Wells - Oscar Wilde - Virginia Woolf