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title	:	The Dramaturgy of Style : Voice in Short Fiction Crosscurrents/modern Critiques. Third Series
author	:	Stephens, Michael Gregory.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	080931231X
print isbn13	:	9780809312313
ebook isbn13	:	9780585178769
language	:	English
subject	Fiction--Technique, Style, Literary.
publication date	:	1986
lcc	:	PN3355.S77 1986eb
ddc	:	808.3
subject	:	Fiction--Technique, Style, Literary.

Page ii Edited by Jerome Klinkowitz In Form: Digressions on the Act of Fiction By Ronald Sukenick Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism By Jerome Klinkowitz Critical Angles: European Views of Contemporary American Literature Edited by Marc Chnetier American Theater of the 1960s By Zoltan Szilassy The Fiction of William H. Gass: The Consolation of Language By Arthur M. Saltzman The Novel as Performance: Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman By Jerzy Kutnik

Page iii The Dramaturgy of Style Voice in Short Fiction Michael Stephens Southern Illinois University Press CARBONDALE AND EDWARDSVILLE

Page iv Copyright 1986 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Teresa White Designed by Design for Publishing Production supervised by Kathleen Giencke Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Stephens, Michael Gregory. The dramaturgy of style. (Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series) Includes index. 1. FictionTechnique. 2. Style, Literary. I. Title. II. Title: Voice in short fiction. III. Series. PN3355.S77 1986 809.3936 85-14327 ISBN 0-8093-1231-X

Page v For J. R. Humphreys, a seeing voice There comes the moment, and I saw it then, when the moon goes from flat to round. For the first time it met my eyes as a globe. The word "moon" came into my mouth as though fed to me out of a silver spoon. Held in my mouth the moon became a word. It had the roundness of a Concord grape Grandpa took off his vine and gave me to suck out of its skin and swallow whole, in Ohio. Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

Page vii CONTENTS Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series Jerome Klinkowitz ix Preface xi I. Introduction 1 1 The Dramaturgy of Style 3 2 Exemplary Voices Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Isaac Babel 16 II. Voices of the New Muse 29 3 Paul Blackburn 49 4 Joel Oppenheimer 67 5 Gilbert Sorrentino 85 6 Hubert Selby, Jr. 102 7 Vietnam: The American Ronin 129 8 Korea: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 184 9 Stephen Dixon 211 10 Harold Pinter 231 III. Envoi: The Act of Darkness 257 Index 271

Page ix CROSSCURRENTS/MODERN CRITIQUES/THIRD SERIES Jerome Klinkowitz In the early 1960s, when the Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques series was developed by Harry T. Moore, the contemporary period was still a controversial one for scholarship. Even today the elusive sense of the present dares critics to rise above mere impressionism and to approach their subject with the same rigors of discipline expected in more traditional areas of study. As the first two series of Crosscurrents books demonstrated, critiquing contemporary culture often means that the writer must be historian, philosopher, sociologist, and bibliographer as well as literary critic, for in many cases these essential preliminary tasks are yet undone. To the challenges that faced the initial Crosscurrents project have been added those unique to the past two decades: the disruption of conventional techniques by the great surge in innovative writing in the American 1960s just when social and political conditions were being radically transformed, the new worldwide interest in the Magic Realism of South American novelists, the startling experiments of textual and aural poetry from Europe, the emergence of Third World authors, the rising cause of feminism in life and literature, and, most dramatically, the introduction of Continental theory into the previously staid world of Anglo-American literary

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