Crafting Fiction: In Theory, in Practice / Edition 1

by Marvin Diogenes, Clyde Moneyhun

Overview

This anthology of 58 articles, interviews, memoirs, and critical and personal essays gives students convenient and affordable access to a wide variety of important selections that discuss the theory and practice of fiction writing. The readings are accompanied by questions that encourage critical reading, as well as writing activities that invite creative responses. A compact writing workshop included guides students in drafting and revising their stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780767402071
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	12/28/2000
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction PART I. THE CRAFT OF FICTION 1. Realist, Romantic, and Avant-Garde Traditions Foundations of Fiction Flannery O'Connor, Writing Short Stories / John Gardner, Basic Skills, Genre, and Fiction as Dream / Rust Hills, Slick Fiction and Quality Fiction Defining and Understanding Narrative / Frank O'Connor, Introduction to The Lonely Voice / Francine Prose, Learning from Chekhov / Ursula Le Guin, Some Thoughts on Narrative Romance and Fabulation / Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne on Romance / Henry James, James on Hawthorne's Romances / Frank Norris, A Plea for Romantic Fiction / Robert Scholes, Fabulation and Romance Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction / William Gass, Philosophy and the Form of Fiction / Annie Dillard, Fiction in Bits / Raymond Federman, Fiction Today or the Pursuit of Non-Knowledge / Philip Stevick, Form, Antiform, and Neoform: Verbal Collage 2. Craft and Elements of Fiction (and more...)