Contemporary American women writers : narrative strategies - Rainwater, Catherine, 1953-; Scheick, William J. (Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1985)
Ann Beattie, the art of the missing / Carolyn Porter. -- Grace Paley , chaste compactness / Ronald Schleifer. -- Annie Dillard, narrative fr inge / William J. Scheick. -- Anne Redmon, the fugal procedure of Music and silence / Catherine Rainwater. -- Cynthia Ozick, invention & ortho doxy / Ellen Pifer. -- Anne Tyler, medusa points & contact points / Mar y F. Robertson. -- Alice Walker, the dialect & letters of The color pur ple / Elizabeth Fifer. -- Maxine Hong Kingston, narrative technique & f emale 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.
Includes bibliographies.
Keywords: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American fiction -- Women authors -- Bibliography; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century