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• A Fable of Modern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Dore Ashton (HTML at UC Press)

• Identidad y Diversidad: Libro de Artista / Identity and Diversity: Artist's Book (Boston: Northeastern University, 2011), ed. by Stephen A. Sadow, Irene Jaievesky, and Perla Bajder, contrib. by Jenny Asse Chayo, Mariana Felcman, Daniel Chirom, Michal Kirchbaum, Sonia Chocrón, Susana Beibe, Teodoro Ducach, Hugo Goldgel, Ricardo Feierstein, Memum Adrian Levy, Juana García Abás, Leonor Coifman, Isaac Goldemberg, Tomas Wengrowicz, Miryam Esther Gover de Nasatsky, Liana Strasberg, Susana Grimberg, Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Raquel Schwartz, Rosita Kalina, Ileana Piszk Kalina, José Pivín, Lihie Talmor, César Tiempo, Raquel Orzuj, Eliahu Toker, and Mirta Kupferminc (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• The Little Review, ed. by Margaret C. Anderson, Jane Heap, and Ezra Pound (partial serial archives)
• Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts (1921-1924), ed. by Harold Loeb (partial serial archives)
• Bruno's Weekly (1915-1916), ed. by Guido Bruno (partial serial archives)
• Coterie, ed. by Chaman Lall and Russell Green (full serial archives)

• Dada (in French; 1917-1921) (partial serial archives)
• Proverbe (French Dadaist and literary magazine; 1920-1921), ed. by Paul Éluard (full serial archives)

• Two Worlds (full serial archives)
• The Transatlantic Review (1924), ed. by Ford Madox Ford (partial serial archives)
• The Smart Set (partial serial archives)
• Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts (1921-1924), ed. by Harold Loeb (partial serial archives)
• Coterie, ed. by Chaman Lall and Russell Green (full serial archives)
• The Dial (partial serial archives)

• Bruno's Weekly (1915-1916), ed. by Guido Bruno (partial serial archives)

• Vierzehn Briefe Christi: Ein Geburtstagsgeschenk für Seine Abteilung Ernst Haeckel vom Besitzer des Kabarets zur Blauen Milchstrasse (in German; Berlin-Zehlendorf: Verlag der Tagebücher : Architekt J. Baader, ca. 1914), by Johannes Baader (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• Young Adult Novel (read by the author in its entirety; c1982), by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (MP3 files (select this title from the "choose a book" menu) at pinkwater.com)

• Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2021), by Whitney Trettien (HTML with commentary at mn.edu)

• The Current Line (1996), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)

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

• English Composition as a Happening (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Geoffrey Michael Sirc (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts: Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Daniel T. O'Hara (PDF at Ohio STate)
• The Citizen's Voice: Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2003), by Michael Keren (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by N. Katherine Hayles (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by N. Katherine Hayles (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory (Evanston, UK: Northwestern University Press, c2017), by Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Architecture and Modern Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2012), by David Spurr (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Literature in Exile (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by John Glad (page images at HathiTrust)
• After Innocence: Visions of the Fall in Modern Literature (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1982), by Terry Otten (page images at Pitt)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Critical I, by Norman N. Holland (HTML at ufl.edu)

• The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Eric L. Berlatsky (PDF at Ohio State)
• 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)
• 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)
• Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florentin Smarandache's Work, by Ion Soare (PDF at UNM)

• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)

• Performing the Sentence: Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v13; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2014), ed. by Carola Dertnig and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Mapping Intermediality in Performance (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010), ed. by Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, and Robin Nelson (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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