Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
x, 355 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
1. On writers: The radiance of Jane Austen -- Henry Green: novelist of the imagination -- Katherine Anne Porter: the eye of the story -- The house of Willa Cather -- Reality in Chekhov's stories -- 2. On writing: Looking at short stories -- Writing and analyzing a story -- Place in fiction -- Words into fiction -- Must the novelist crusade? -- "Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead?" -- Some notes on time in fiction -- 3. Reviews: The Western journals of Washington Irving / edited and annotated by John Francis McDermott -- Names on the land / by George R. Stewart -- Granite and rainbow / by Virginia Woolf -- The letters of Virginia Woolf, volume II / edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joann Trautmann -- Charlotte's web / by E.B. White -- Intruder in the dust / by William Faulkner -- Selected letters of William Faulkner / edited by Joseph Blotner -- Marianne Thornton / by E.M. Forster -- The life to come, and other stories / by E.M. Forster -- The most of S.J. Perelman; Baby, its cold inside / by S.J. Perelman -- The saddest story: a biography of Ford Madox Ford / by Arthur Mizener -- The underground man / by Ross Macdonald -- Last tales / by Isak Dinesen -- The cockatoo / by Patrick White -- Pictures and conversations / by Elizabeth Bowen -- 4. Personal and occasional pieces: A sweet devouring -- Some notes on river country -- Fairy tale of the Natchez Trace -- A pageant of birds -- The flavor of Jackson -- The little store -- Ida M'Toy -- One time, one place. |
Subject |
Fiction -- Technique.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Technique. (OCoLC)fst00923755
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Other Form: |
Online version: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. Eye of the story. 1st ed. New York : Random House, ©1978 (OCoLC)647361558 |
ISBN |
0394425065 |
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9780394425061 |
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