| Description |
234 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ann Beattie, the art of the missing / Carolyn Porter -- Grace Paley, chaste compactness / Ronald Schleifer -- Annie Dillard, narrative fringe / William J. Scheick -- Anne Redmon, the fugal procedure of Music and silence / Catherine Rainwater -- Cynthia Ozick, invention & orthodoxy / Ellen Pifer -- Anne Tyler, medusa points & contact points / Mary F. Robertson -- Alice Walker, the dialect & letters of The color purple / Elizabeth Fifer -- Maxine Hong Kingston, narrative technique & female identity / Suzanne Juhasz -- Toni Morrison, mastery of narrative / Linda W. Wagner -- Marge Piercy, the double narrative structure of Small changes / Elaine Tuttle Hansen & William J. Scheick |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors -- Bibliography.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Rainwater, Catherine, 1953-
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Scheick, William J.
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| LC no. |
85009116 |
| ISBN |
0813101689 (paperback) |
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0813115582 |
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