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@Spellbanisher
I'm perfectly willing to admit that the conventions, and even the goals, of literary fiction are different from those of most forms of genre fiction. Literary fiction writers often use different techniques than others because those techniques better suit their writing goals. Good writers write with purpose, and use the techniques that help them best achieve it.
What I do not believe is that literary fiction writers use experimental techniques simply to call attention to the fact that they are using the technique. They use them to achieve their specific writing goals, and sometimes they don't succeed.
When that happens, people notice the technique. They often pay more attention to the fact that the author didn't use quotation marks to distinguish dialogue than to the dialogue itself.
The majority of literary fiction writers that I am aware of write to comment on or explore aspects of the human condition. If all their readers can talk about is that they didn't use quotation marks, then that writer has failed. It's not a matter of misplaced expectations, it's about a problem with the technique.
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