Musing The Mosaic: Approaches To Ronald Sukenick (suny Series In Postmodern Culture)

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.--jacket. Introduction / Matthew Roberson -- Taking The Line For A Walk : In Form To Narralogues : A History In Medias Res / Steve Tomasula -- At Play In The Fields Of Formal Thinking : Up And Postmodernist Metafiction / Charles B. Harris -- What's Your Story : Narration And A New Knowledge Of Reality In The Death Of The Novel And Other Stories / Nancy Blake -- Sukenick's Posthumans / Ursula K. Heise -- Interruption Discontinuity Imperfection It Can't Be Helped / Campbell Tatham -- Explorations Of Postmodern Time, Space, And Image : Considering The Works Of Ronald Sukenick And David Salle / Charles Russell -- Sukenick In Space, Or, The Other Truth Of The Page / Brian Mchale -- Graphiction : Technological Reality In Ronald Sukenick's 98.6, Doggy Bag, And Mosaic Man / Lance Olsen -- The Artist Is The Medium Is The Message : A Ron Sukenick Re-mix / Mark Amerika -- Unwriting/rewriting The Master Narratives Of Bankrupt Modernity : Ronald Sukenick's Mosaic Man / Marcel Cornis-pope -- Down As Up, Out As In : Memoir As Manifesto / Jr Foley -- Exploring The Question Of Values : An Interview With Ronald Sukenick / Larry Mccaffery -- 8 1/2 Ronnies / Jerome Klinkowitz. Edited By Matthew Roberson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 271-279) And Index. Matthew Roberson is Professor of English at the State University of West Georgia and the author of 1998.6 .