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  2. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory narrative technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to the Dadaists of the 1920s, but it was developed and popularized in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially by writer William Burroughs .

  3. Anagrammatic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Rishi Talks to Katie: [6] a dialogue between two high school students: a text's sentences are rearranged, then its words, then its letters; In the French poem Ulcérations by Georges Perec, every line is an anagram of the title. The book Permutation City opens with an anagramatic poem.

  4. Postmodern literature - Wikipedia

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    Postmodern literature is a form of ... Beckett's last text ... in which words and phrases are cut from a newspaper or other publication and rearranged to ...

  5. Anagram - Wikipedia

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    Mike Keith has anagrammed the complete text of Moby Dick. [43] He, along with Richard Brodie, has published The Anagrammed Bible that includes anagrammed version of many books of the Bible. [ 44 ] Popular television personality Dick Cavett is known for his anagrams of famous celebrities such as Alec Guinness and Spiro Agnew.

  6. Boccaccio's notebooks - Wikipedia

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    The texts were rearranged into two blocks by Antonio Petrei in the 16th century and passed to the Laurentian Library in 1568, after which the two blocks were separated into the two codices. [2] The Zibaldone Laurenziano is a hodgepodge of texts, more miscellaneous than the Miscellanea. They are mostly moral, literary and medieval. [3]

  7. Michael Moorcock bibliography - Wikipedia

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    The 1965 novel had about a quarter of the text removed for reasons of length (mostly in the second and third novellas) and the remaining text rearranged with new bridging material added to make sense of the restructuring. In 1977, DAW Books republished Elric's saga in six books that collected the tales according to their internal chronology:

  8. Text types - Wikipedia

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    Factual texts merely seek to inform, whereas literary texts seek to entertain or otherwise engage the reader by using creative language and imagery. There are many aspects to literary writing, and many ways to analyse it, but four basic categories are descriptive, narrative, expository, and argumentative.

  9. Text (literary theory) - Wikipedia

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    In literary theory, a text is any object that can be "read", whether this object is a work of literature, a street sign, an arrangement of buildings on a city block, or styles of clothing. [ citation needed ] It is a set of signs that is available to be reconstructed by a reader (or observer) if sufficient interpretants are available.