When The Novel as Performance was first published in 1986 it was an instant classic of contemporary literary criticism: As the first book-length study of American postmodernist authors Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman it focuses on the "real fictitious" or performatory discourses of these significant authors who both repudiate "the idea of the novel as mimesis (representation) in favor of the genuinely postmodern idea of the novel as performance...