Valerius Soranus is also credited with a little-recognized literary innovation: Pliny the Elder says he was the first writer to provide a table of contents to help readers navigate a long work.

But the odds are he will not be quite so ready in the future to protest literary innovations that try to come to terms with our perennial habit of mixing memory and desire.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men has won high praise over the years and is routinely studied in the U.S. as a source of both journalistic and literary innovation.

Through Eduardo Anguita, he met Vicente Huidobro, father of "Creationism" literary movement, which disputed literary innovations with Dada and Surrealism.

Ellroy has developed a number of literary innovations in his work and these have found their fullest expression in this trilogy.

Much of his literary innovation is related to the scientific innovation of the time, in particular to the work of his brother William.

As a result they were far less interested in literary innovation than the Formalists tended to be.

Over time we should see more variety and literary innovation, rather than the usual oh-so-clever but ultimately gutless output from the Oxbridge English literature crowd.

Senghor urged African writers "to assimilate so as not to be assimilated," to appropriate European literary innovations while holding fast to their own identities.

The Silappatikaram, apart from being the first known epic poem in Tamil, is also important for its literary innovations.