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• Experimental literature

• The Desperado Age: British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• Alan Brownjohn and the Desperado Age, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)

• The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Yeats and Postmodernism (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1991), ed. by Leonard Orr (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c1991), by Ronald E. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (issues online 1962-1965), ed. by Ed Sanders (partial serial archives)

• 0 to 9 (New York-based literary magazine, 1967-1969), ed. by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer (partial serial archives)

• Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E", by Ernest Vincent Wright (PDF with commentary at holybooks.com)

• 0 to 9 (New York-based literary magazine, 1967-1969), ed. by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• CMOK to YOu To: A Correspondence (Punctum Books, c2016), by Nina Živančević and Marc James Léger
  • PDF with commentary at Punctum Books
  • PDF files with commentary at Project Muse
• Le Petit Journal des Refusées (originally published 1896; this edition 2009), ed. by Johanna Drucker, contrib. by Gelett Burgess (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Resonances Against Fascism: Modernist and Avant-Garde Sounds From Kurt Weill to Black Lives Matter (Albany: SUNY Press, c2024), ed. by Laura Chiesa (PDF with commentary at SUNY)
• The Fluxus Reader (Chicester, UK and New York: Academy Editions, 1998), ed. by Ken Friedman (PDF files at Swinburne Research Bank)

• Situationist International Anthology, ed. by Ken Knabb (HTML at bopsecrets.org)

• Kandinsky in Munich, 1896-1914 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, c1982), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Peter Jelavich, Carl E. Schorske, and Peg Weiss, illust. by Wassily Kandinsky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Amazons of the Avant-Garde (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c2000), ed. by John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt, illust. by Alexandra Exter, Nataliia Sergeevna Goncharova, Liubov' Sergeevna Popova, Ol'ga Vladimirovna Rozanova, Varvara Fedorovna Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udal'tsova (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2002), by Gennifer S. Weisenfeld (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections From the George Costakis Collection (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1981), by Margit Rowell and Angelica Zander Rudenstine (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Black Mountain College Review (1951) (full serial archives)

• Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays (compilation of essays published in "boundary 2"; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), ed. by Paul A. Bové (page images at HathiTrust)
• À Chacun sa Quête: Essais sur les Nouveaux Visages de la Transcendance (in French; Sainte-Foy, QC: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2000), ed. by Yves Boisvert and Lawrence Olivier (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (second edition, 2001), by Thomas Bridges (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Tobin Siebers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner (PDF at UCLA)

• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Sensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2015), by John Jervis (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)

• Absolutes or Not (Springfield, MO: Global University, 2009), by David Kowalski (PDF at globalreach.org)
• Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001), by Merold Westphal (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Žižek (c2008), by Geoff Boucher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (WWW edition), by Arthur Kroker (HTML at archive.org)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898-1992 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by José Luis Venegas (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2012), by Vera M. Kutzinski (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Simon Gikandi (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Tyrus Miller (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Literary Modernism and the Transformation of the Work (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by James F. Knapp (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)

• Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Keith Louis Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jean Mills (PDF at Ohio State)
• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), ed. by Bonnie Kime Scott (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Molly Youngkin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1973), by Edward Alexander
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

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