| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
192 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Some Contemporary Fiction -- Fiction in Bits -- Time in Smithereens -- The Egg in the Cage -- Two Wild Animals, Seven Crazies, and a Breast -- Character -- Point of View -- Return to Narration -- The Fiction of Possibility -- Art About Art -- The Problem of Knowing the World -- The Fiction of Possibility -- Where Is the Mainstream? -- The State of the Art -- Revolution, No -- Marketplace and Bazaar -- Who Listens to Critics? -- Fine Writing, Cranks, and the New Morality: Prose Styles -- Shooting the Agate -- Calling a Spade a Spade -- Does the World Have Meaning? -- The Hope of the Race -- May We Discover Meaning? -- Who Is Crazy? -- Can Fiction Interpret the World? -- How a Whale Means -- Find the Hidden Meaning -- About Symbol, and with a Diatribe Against Purity -- A Diatribe Against Purity -- Does the World Have Meaning?. |
| Local Note |
. |
|
F-c.1 7.95 pb. |
|
. |
|
F-c.1 7.95 pb. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
Fiction.
|
| Other Form: |
Online version: Dillard, Annie. Living by fiction. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1982 (OCoLC)644824311 |
| ISBN |
0060149604: $9.95 |
|
9780060149604 |
|
