Experimental Long Fiction

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Experimental Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Introduction

Literature is always involved in a process of transformation. A new age is new precisely because its important writers do things differently from the way their predecessors worked. Thus, it could be said that almost all important literature is in one sense or another innovative or experimental at its inception but inevitably becomes, over time, conventional.

At least in reference to long fiction, however, the situation is a bit more complex. It is apparent that, four centuries after

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