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Index
Cover
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Introduction
What does experimental mean?
What are the concerns of experimental writers?
What is experimental fiction?
What are the differences between traditional realist fiction and experimental fiction?
Why read experimental fiction?
How does a reader approach experimental fiction?
What criteria can be used for reading as a writer of experimental fiction?
At this moment in time, what criteria may writers and readers consider when they are deconstructing experimental fiction?
Section One: When Was/What Was Modernity(ism)?
Form and Fiction
Worldview and Fiction
Gender Crisis
The City and Fiction
Dreams, Philosophy, Science and Fiction
Further Reading
Section Two: When Were/Who Were the Beats?
Beat/Music
Spirituality and the Beats
Sexuality, Drug Culture and Fiction
On the Road
Further Reading
Section Three: When Is/Was the Postmodern Era?
Identity in Flux
The Fictiveness of Fiction
What Is True/What Is Not?
What Is Real/What Is Not?
Giving a Voice to Other
Further Reading
Section Four: A New Era Is Dawning
Beyond Postmodernism
Changing Perceptions of Reality
Anti-Novels Built from Scraps
Electronic/Hyper/Interactive Fiction
Further Reading
Conclusion
How can writers engage in experimental writing practice?
What are the implications for the writer wishing to experiment?
Can this contradictory, complex world be represented by traditional-realist fiction?
Index
Imprint
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