Ann Beattie, the art of the missing / Carolyn Porter -- Grace Paley, chaste compactness / Ronald Schleifer -- Annie Dillard, narrative fringe / William J. Scheick -- Anne Redmon, the fugal procedure of Music and silence / Catherine Rainwater -- Cynthia Ozick, invention & orthodoxy / Ellen Pifer -- Anne Tyler, medusa points & contact points / Mary F. Robertson -- Alice Walker, the dialect & letters of The color purple / Elizabeth Fifer -- Maxine Hong Kingston, narrative technique & female 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.
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Garner et al. (1986) studied this question.