Ronald Sukenick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Sukenick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Sukenick |
| SIGNATURE | SUKENICK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Excerpts from the Writers' Roundtable
Research Article| April 01 1994 Excerpts from the Writers’ Roundtable Peter Glassgold; Peter Glassgold Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mark Jay Mirsky; Mark Jay Mirsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bob Perelman; Bob Perelman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ronald Sukenick Ronald Sukenick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quar…
Novel as Novel
Down and In
In Form
Form must never be taken for granted, but must be created as the work itself is shaped: The writer works not from a priori ideas about what will happen and what form it will take, but in and through the text. Sukenick, one of our most original contemporary novelists, describes these essays as the comments of a fiction writer about writing, not those of a critic on what has been written. They are more or less reports on experiencethose of one enga…
Frontispiece
Eight Digressions on the Politics of Language
L ITERARY VALUES serve the interests of classes, groups, professions, institutions, industries, and this is neither bad nor avoidable. But it is a factor consistently omitted from discussion of contemporary literature-and that omission in itself, no doubt, is in somebody's interest. From this point of view, literary judgment can be read as a code, a code it might be in the interest of some literary people to maintain, and of others to break. In a…
Twelve Digressions toward a Study of Composition
ORM is itself a metaphor and that of fiction is perhaps the most inclusive for our society. The form of the traditional novel is a metaphor for a society that no longer exists. Mario Praz has described the detective story as a bourgeois fairy tale, but one could apply the description as well to the novel of social realism. Its present function is to sustain a series of comforting illusions, among which one might include the feeling that the indiv…
Wallace Stevens
Twelve Digressions toward a Study of Composition
ORM is itself a metaphor and that of fiction is perhaps the most inclusive for our society. The form of the traditional novel is a metaphor for a society that no longer exists. Mario Praz has described the detective story as a bourgeois fairy tale, but one could apply the description as well to the novel of social realism. Its present function is to sustain a series of comforting illusions, among which one might include the feeling that the indiv…
Wallace Stevens
Twelve Digressions toward a Study of Composition
ORM is itself a metaphor and that of fiction is perhaps the most inclusive for our society. The form of the traditional novel is a metaphor for a society that no longer exists. Mario Praz has described the detective story as a bourgeois fairy tale, but one could apply the description as well to the novel of social realism. Its present function is to sustain a series of comforting illusions, among which one might include the feeling that the indiv…
Eight Digressions on the Politics of Language
L ITERARY VALUES serve the interests of classes, groups, professions, institutions, industries, and this is neither bad nor avoidable. But it is a factor consistently omitted from discussion of contemporary literature-and that omission in itself, no doubt, is in somebody's interest. From this point of view, literary judgment can be read as a code, a code it might be in the interest of some literary people to maintain, and of others to break. In a…
Frontispiece
In Form
Form must never be taken for granted, but must be created as the work itself is shaped: The writer works not from a priori ideas about what will happen and what form it will take, but in and through the text. Sukenick, one of our most original contemporary novelists, describes these essays as the comments of a fiction writer about writing, not those of a critic on what has been written. They are more or less reports on experiencethose of one enga…
Down and In
Novel as Novel
Excerpts from the Writers' Roundtable
Research Article| April 01 1994 Excerpts from the Writers’ Roundtable Peter Glassgold; Peter Glassgold Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mark Jay Mirsky; Mark Jay Mirsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bob Perelman; Bob Perelman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ronald Sukenick Ronald Sukenick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quar…
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