The Process of Fiction Contemporary Stories and Criticism by McKenzie, Barbara - 1974

Asheville, NC: Harcourt College Pub, 1974. 2nd Edition . Paperback. Good. Covers have edgewear and rubbing, previous owners name, inside first page. Paperback: 611 pages, Publisher: Harcourt College Pub2 edition (June 1974) Language: English, ISBN-10: 0155719866, ISBN-13: 978-0155719866, Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 5.5 x 8.5 inches, , Shipping Weight: 1.6 poundsThe 2nd Edition of The Process of Fiction, like its predecessor, brings together two stories by each of ten outstanding contemporary American writers, critical ESSAY that interpret the first story of each pair, and 3 General Introduction to the technical elements of fiction. New to this edition and reflecting recent develoPments in experimental writing are stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Donald Barthelme, and John Barth. Like any art form, the short story holds a key to the life of its time, and the life reflected here is America since Hiroshima. But, though the authors share with one another and with the reader a community of time and place, each story is shaped to its author's own measure. Represented are the wit and intelligence of Mary McCarthy, the scrupulously balanced writing of John Updike, the domestic labyrinths of Joyce Carol Oates, the survivors' dance of Roth and Malamud, the newsreel world of Donald Barthelme, the mythic imagination of John Barth, the quiet drama of Eudora Welty and her remarkable gift for extended, tangible images. 8.30 X 5.70 X 1.20 inches, 611 pages