An International Journal of Exploratory Meta-Living

An Open Source Journal
published through the Auspices of the Poison Pie Publishing House
Knoxville, Tennessee

 

Issue 05 (2015)

  • A Literature of Non-Idiomatic Improvisation

  • Abstract:   In this document, a description of the literature of non-idiomatic improvisation is provided. An analogy with the established field of non-idiomatic improvised music is continuously employed to define a literary counterpart. Elements of both the non-idiomatic nature and the improvisational nature of literature are identified. Five works of fiction by established authors are evaluated in terms of these criteria. Finally, one work of fiction by an author who identifies himself as a writer of non-idiomatic improvised literature is discussed.
  • Note: This document was originally published as "A Literature of Non-Idiomatic Improvisation" on November 11, 2013 by the Poison Pie Publishing House with document # PP-019-E. It is reprinted in An International Journal of Exploratory Meta-Living for archival purposes.

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