1. Essay as Art: Experimental Literature

2. What is Experimental literature? [Experimental fiction] "is fiction that sets up it's own rules for itself [...] while subverting the conventions according to which readers have understood what constitutes a proper work of literature."

3. Understanding Experimental Writing (History) Many Europeans and Americans began experimenting with different forms of literature and stared creating unusual inclinations, this movement would be later known as Modernism. It described both a set cultural trend but also a cultural movement which would later spread across the western society.

5. T. S. Eliot

6. Gertrude Stein

7. James Joyce.

8. Hemingway

9. Dos Passos

10. Ralph Ellison.

11. Kenneth Patchen

13. Traditional Writing vs. Experimental Writing (in a story) Most stories have to be real enough to be believable, but peculiar to grasp the reader attention. Structure and style is clearly defined to a certain point. A style of writing that is boarding and popular. A simple formula to follow that is accessible. Writers have perfected the art of narrative, dialogue and storytelling. There isn't a very clear line demarcating where one ends and the other begins but yet a blended element that allows the story to flow Don’t allow the mechanics of the storytelling to interfere with the writers purpose

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16. A Suggested Reading List(Writers) SalmanRushdie Gore Vidal Kurt Vonnegut Oscar Wilde Kathy Acker John Barth Samuel Beckett Gabriel Garcia-Marquez Franz Kafka Alain Robbe-Grillet William S. Burroughs James Joyce Virginia Woolf Thomas Pynchon

17. Experimental Literature ( Books) The Tunnel: Selected Poems of Russell Edson Invisible Cities A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters Imaginary Magnitude This Is Not a Novel Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

18. Reference http://www.esoteric-sensationalism.com/theory.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dalloway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_literature http://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Literature/lm/R1C0XDLFURIYJP