Joyce Carol Oates : a study of the short fiction
(Book - Regular Print)
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Published
New York : Twayne Publishers ;, [1994].
Physical Desc
xv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Yavapai College Prescott - LIMBO - Items being donated to other libraries
PS3565.A8Z69 1994
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PS3565.A8Z69 1994
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Published
New York : Twayne Publishers ;, [1994].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-228) and index.
Description
Joyce Carol Oates is often called America's most prolific living writer, but it is perhaps her versatility that is most astounding. Just as she is a revered novelist, playwright, poet, and critic, the short stories gathered in her 21 published collections - from By the North Gate (1963) to Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) - vary in theme and style, although all evoke the bedrock natural and social reality that has consistently informed her fiction. In this comprehensive survey of Oates's stories, Greg Johnson selects eight of her collections that he considers most representative of her work and among her most successful books. He analyzes stories in which Oates experiments with form, genre, allusion, and Gothicism and presents postmodern allegories of American life. Separate chapters are devoted to Oates's early Eden County stories in By the North Gate and Upon the Sweeping Flood (1966), her stories focused on female experience in The Wheel of Love (1970) and The Goddess and Other Women (1974), her experimentation with fictional form and genre in Marriages and Infidelities (1972) and Night-Side (1977), and her recent work in Raven's Wing (1986) and Heat (1991), dealing with the psychology and culture of contemporary life. The volume's second part presents a 1981 interview with Oates (conducted by Sanford Pinsker), as well as a copious selection of Oates's writing about her stories and the form generally - a discussion of her early stories; separate appraisals of "Funland," "Heat," "The Swimmers," and "Why Don't You Come Live with Me It's Time"; her response to the question "Is there a female voice?"; and her comments on the translation of short story into film. Part 3 consists of four critical essays - by scholars Marilyn C. Wesley, Daniel L. Zins, Robert McPhillips, and Gretchen Schulz - commissioned specifically for this volume, as well as previously published essays by William Abrahams, Elaine Showalter, and Elizabeth Pochoda. Johnson's exploration of the stories he considers key to an understanding of Oates's mastery of the genre is essential reading for students of Oates's work and of the contemporary American short story.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Johnson, G. (1994). Joyce Carol Oates: a study of the short fiction . Twayne Publishers ;.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Johnson, Greg, 1953-. 1994. Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Johnson, Greg, 1953-. Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction Twayne Publishers, 1994.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Johnson, Greg. Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction Twayne Publishers ;, 1994.
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