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Marcus, Ben, "Why Experimental Fiction Threatens...," from Harper's

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, For a New Novel: "On Several Obsolete Notions," "A Novel that Invents Itself," "New Novel New Man"

Fletcher & Calder, "Introduction," from The Nouveau Roman Reader

Sollers, Philippe, "The Novel and the Experience of Limits," from Surfiction , (ed. Raymond Federman)

Ricardou, Jean, "Nouveau Roman, Tel Quel,"   from Surfiction , (ed. Raymond Federman)

Barthes, Roland, "On Reading," from The Rustle of Language

Barthes, Roland, "The Death of the Author," from The Rustle of Language

Barthes, from S/Z , excerpted in Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel , Bran Nicol

Barth, John, The Literature of Exhaustion, from Surfiction , (ed. Raymond Federman)

Culler, Jonathan, Chapters from Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

ibid.: appendix: Literary Schools, etc.

Markson, David, from This is Not a Novel

Markson, David, from Reader's Block

Sarraute, Nathalie, from Tropisms

Sontag, Susan, "Against Interpretation"

Bennett, Tony, Outside Literature: Narrative, History, Politics; Theories of the Novel; Literature Without Aesthetics

Borges, Jorge, Prologue, from Ficciones

Borges, Jorge, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," from Ficciones

Borges, Jorge, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote," from Ficciones

Borges, Jorge, "And Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain," from Ficciones

Borges, Jorge, "The Library of Babel," from Ficciones

Borges, Jorge, "Funes, His Memory," from Ficciones

Calvino, Italo, "How I Wrote One of My Books," from Oulipo Laboratory

Calvino, Italo, "Cybernetics and Ghosts," from The Uses of Literature

Queneau, Raymond, "Cent Mille Milliard Des Poemes," from Oulipo Compendium

Mathews, Harry, "The Dialect of the Tribe," from The Human Country

Mathew, Harry, "Remarks from a Scholar Graduate," from The Human Country

Queneau, Raymond, "The Foundations of Literature," from Oulipo Laboratory

Motte, Warren, Introduction to Oulipo, from Oulipo Primer

Hayles, NK, "Inhabiting House of Leaves" + Introductory material from Writing Machines

Culler, Jonanthan, "Towards a Theory of Non-Genre Literature," from Surfiction

Federman, Raymond, "Four Propositions," from Surfiction

hooks, bell, "Postmodern Blackness," from Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel , Bran Nicol

Appiah, Kwame, "The Postmodern and the Postcolonial," ibid.\

MinHa, Trin T, "The Totalizing Quest for Meaning," from The Moon Waxes Red

MinHa, Trin T, "Unwriting/Inmost Writing," from The Moon Waxes Red