{"product_id":"musing-the-mosaic-matthew-roberson-9780791457283","title":"Musing the Mosaic: Approaches to Ronald Sukenick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines Sukenick's role in reshaping the American literary tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMusing the Mosaic \u003c\/i\u003eprominent 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 \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Ice Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include Mark Amerika, Nancy Blake, Marcel Cornis-Pope, JR Foley, Charles Harris, Ursula Heise, Jerome Klinkowitz, Larry McCaffery, Brian McHale, Lance Olsen, Matthew Roberson, Charles Russell, Campbell Tatham, and Steve Tomasula.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Roberson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791457281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791457283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.08w x 0.61d","brand":"Matthew Roberson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096726544639,"sku":"9780791457283","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/musing-the-mosaic-matthew-roberson-9780791457283","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}