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title	:	In Form, Digressions On the Act of Fiction Crosscurrents/modern Critiques. Third Series
author	:	Sukenick, Ronald.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0809311909
print isbn13	:	9780809311903
ebook isbn13	:	9780585178776
language	:	English
subject	Fiction.
publication date	:	1985
lcc	:	PN3353.S9 1985eb
ddc	:	808.3
subject	:	Fiction.

Page ii Edited by Jerome Klinkowitz Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism by Jerome Klinkowitz

Page iii In Form Digressions on the Act of Fiction Ronald Sukenick Southern Illinois University Press CARBONDALE AND EDWARDSVILLE

Page iv For Mother, Father Copyright 1985 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Dan Gunter Designed by Bob Nance, Design for Publishing, Inc. Production supervised by Kathleen Giencke 88 87 86 85 84 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Sukenick, Ronald. In form, digressions on the act of fiction. (Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series) 1. Fiction. I. Title. II. Series. PN3353.S9 1985 808.3 84-14000 ISBN 0-8093-1190-9

Page v CONTENTS Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series Jerome Klinkowitz vii Preface ix Introduction: Art and the Underground xiii I. Digressions 1 Twelve Digressions Toward a Study of Composition 3 Thirteen Digressions 16 Fiction in the Seventies: Ten Digressions on Ten Digressions 34 Eight Digressions on the Politics of Language 49 Nine Digressions on Narrative Authority 66 Film Digression 83 The Finnegan Digression 99 II. Cross Examination 105 III. Wallace Stevens: Theory and Practice 157 IV. Arguments 199 The New Tradition 201 Castaneda: Upward and Juanward 214 Writing on Writing 226 Innovative Fiction/Innovative Criteria 241 Notes 245

Page vii CROSSCURRENTS/MODERN CRITIQUES/THIRD SERIES 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 au-

Page viii thors, 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 scholarship. These transformations demand that many traditional treatments be rethought, and part of the new responsibility for Crosscurrents will be to provide such studies. Contributions to Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series will be distinguished by their fresh approaches to established topics and by their opening up of new territories for discourse. When a single author is studied, we hope to present the first book on his or her work, or to explore a previously untreated aspect based on new research. Writers who have been critiqued well elsewhere will be studied in comparison with lesser-known figures, sometimes from other cultures, in an effort to broaden our base of understanding. Critical and theoretical works by leading novelists, poets, and dramatists will have a home in Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series, as will sampler-introductions to the best in new Americanist criticism written abroad.

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