Musing the mosaic : approaches to Ronald Sukenick / edited by Matthew Roberson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roberson, Matthew.

Series:

SUNY series in postmodern culture

The SUNY series in postmodern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sukenick, Ronald--Criticism and interpretation.

Sukenick, Ronald.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Physical Description:

vi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

In Musing the Mosaic prominent critics of postmodern and contemporary fiction and culture discuss the fictional and theoretical works of Ronald Sukenick, one of the most important American writers to emerge from the late 1960s. Sukenick has been a prolific participant in reshaping the American literary tradition for two generations and played a pivotal role in the creation and growth of the Fiction Collective and FC2 publishing houses, as well as the journals American Book Review and Black Ice Magazine. In his work he argues that contemporary fiction can neither perform traditional functions nor rely on any conventions in an ever-more dynamic world. Staying true to Sukenick's own creative style, one that takes the seams out of writing before re-stitching it in ways that are truly novel, the contributors examine how and why his writing comes closer to the dissolving, fragmentary nature of reality and its lack of closure than perhaps anything written before it.

Contents:

Taking the Line for a Walk: In Form to Narralogues, A History in Medias Res / Steve Tomasula 13

"At Play in the Fields of Formal Thinking": Up and Postmodernist Metafiction / Charles B. Harris 39

What's Your Story: Narration and "A New Knowledge of Reality" in The Death of the Novel and Other Stories / Nancy Blake 65

Sukenick's Posthumans / Ursula K. Heise 75

Interruption Discontinuity Imperfection It Can't Be Helped / Campbell Tatham 97

Explorations of Postmodern Time, Space, and Image: Considering the Works of Ronald Sukenick and David Salle / Charles Russell 115

Sukenick in Space, or, The Other Truth of the Page / Brian McHale 139

Graphiction: Technological Reality in Ronald Sukenick's 98.6, Doggy Bag, and Mosaic Man / Lance Olsen 153

The Artist is the Medium is the Message: A Ron Sukenick Re-Mix / Mark Amerika 181

Unwriting/Rewriting the Master Narratives of "Bankrupt" Modernity: Ronald Sukenick's Mosaic Man / Marcel Cornis-Pope 199

Down as Up, Out as In: Memoir as Manifesto / JR Foley 213

Exploring the Question of Values: An Interview with Ronald Sukenick / Larry McCaffery 227

8 1/2 Ronnies / Jerome Klinkowitz 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index.

ISBN:

0791457273

0791457281

OCLC:

50285253