in theory, in practice Diogenes, Marvin creator Moneyhun, Clyde text xxu Mountain View, Calif Mayfield Pub. Co. 2001 monographic eng

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ix, 660 p. ; 24 cm. Part 1. The craft of fiction -- Chapter 1. Realist, romantic, and avant-garde traditions -- [1.1] Foundations of fiction -- Writing short stories / Flannery O'Connor -- Basic skills, genre, and fiction as dream / John Gardner -- Slick fiction and quality fiction / Rust Hills -- [1.2] Defining and understanding narrative -- Introduction to 'The lonely voice' / Frank O'Connor -- Learning from Chekhov / Francine Prose -- Some thoughts on narrative / Ursula Le Guin -- [1.3] Romance and fabulation -- Hawthorne on romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- James on Hawthorne/s romances / Henry James -- A plea for romantic fiction / Frank Norris -- Fabulation and romance / Robert Scholes -- [1.4] Modernist and postmodernist fiction -- Philosophy and the form of fiction / William Gass -- Fiction in bits / Annie Dillard -- Fiction today or the pursuit of non-knowledge / Raymond Federman -- Form, antiform, and neoform: verbal collage / Philip Stevick -- Chapter 2. Craft and the elements of fiction -- [2.1] Fiction's periodic table -- Aspects of fiction / E.M. Forster -- Notes on writing a novel / Elizabeth Bowen -- Types of narration / Wayne C. Booth -- Scene and summary / Leon Surmelian -- Some notes on time / Eudora Welty -- [2.2] The stuff of life and character -- Character / R.V. Cassill -- The transformation process / Robin Hemley -- Issues of character: the saint at the typewriter / David Huddle -- [2.3] What to leave out and what to put in / Kit Reed -- Why stories fail / Ben Nyberg -- Don't do this: a short guide to what not to do / Jerome Stern -- [2.4] A more nurturing approach to revision -- Revision / Jesse Lee Kercheval -- Point of view / David Madden -- Revising your prose for power and punch / David Michael Kaplan -- [2.5] A workshop for writers: invention and revision -- Guided writing exercises: invention -- Craft exercises: revision -- Part 2. Contexts for writing fiction -- Chapter 3. The writer's life -- [3.1] Hunger was good discipline / Ernest Hemingway -- Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin -- A writer's diary / Virginia Woolf -- [3.2] Growing up and growing into the writing life -- Long work, short life / Bernard Malamud -- Whole literature / Carol Bly -- Believing in literature / Dorothy Allison -- Introduction to 'Bird by bird' / Anne Lamott -- [3.3] Metaphors for the writing life -- The writing life / Annie Dillard -- The master-slave relationship / Victoria Nelson -- The magic show / Tim O'Brien -- [3.4] The fiction writer and politics -- False documents / E.L. Doctorow -- Dysfunctional narratives or "Mistakes were made" / Charles Baxter -- Three in a bed: fiction, morals, and politics / Nadine Gordimer -- [3.5] The fiction writer and popular culture -- Perchance to dream / Jonathan Franzen -- E unibus pluram: television and U.S. fiction / David Foster Wallace -- The cyberbard and the multiform plot / Janet H. Murray -- Chapter 4. The teaching and learning of fiction writing -- [4.1] Now, class ... [4.1] How to become a writer / Lorrie Moore -- Interview with Jane Smiley / Alexander Neubauer -- Creating writing / Raymond Carver -- The paraffin density of wax wings / Bonnie Friedman -- [4.2] Reading as a writer -- Reading as a writer / R.V. Cassill -- Reading / Richard Ford -- An annotated reading list / Rita Mae Brown -- [4.3] Pedagogies for fiction writing: theory and practice -- Creative writing: can it/should it be taught? / David Lodge -- Introduction to 'Narrative design' / Madison Smartt Bell -- The theory of creative writing I and II / Joe David Bellamy -- The new assembly-line fiction / John Aldridge. Marvin Diogenes; Clyde Moneyhun Includes index. Fiction Authorship PN3355 .D56 2001 0767402073 170223 20170223190737.0