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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42342
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42342
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

You may be interested in [experimental literature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_literature) -- not everyone is into writing for the sake of Standard Storytelling.

I adore 4th-wall breaking theater, such as "[Six Characters in Search of an Author](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Author)." I love meta. Behind-the-scenes tours at Disney are amazing -- you see not the story of the ride, but the decisions made, and perhaps what they're revealing about the time of their creation (both the source material and the ride itself). So I get you about being interested in nested symbolism.

In Scott McCloud (of _Understanding Comics_)'s [TED Talk](https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_mccloud_on_comics/transcript), he divides expression into several quadrants, and some are about experimenting with form, and some more focused on storytelling. From around 05:25

> In comics, I know that it results in sort of a formalist attitude towards trying to understand how it works. Then there's another, more classical attitude which embraces beauty and craft; another one which believes in the pure transparency of content; and then another, which emphasizes the authenticity of human experience and honesty and rawness. ... And they reflect a dichotomy of art and delight on left and the right; tradition and revolution on the top and the bottom. And if you go on the diagonal, you get content and form, and then beauty and truth.

Some related terms (to see if you have a "home" in one of these) to check out:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language\_poets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_poets)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdist\_fiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdist_fiction)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary\_modernism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_modernism) (and the list of subgenres in the info box)

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