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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
Oates borrows the allegorical figures in Emily Dickinson’s famous poem Because I could not stop for Death (first appearing under the title “The Chariot” in 1890). The opening verses of the poem read: Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. [23] [circular reference]
Stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway is a collection of short stories by American author Joyce Carol Oates, published in April 2008 by Ecco. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As the title suggests, the stories are about the final days in the lives of authors Edgar Allan Poe , Emily Dickinson , Mark Twain , Henry James and Ernest ...
- Joyce Carol Oates from "Fictions, Dreams, Revelations", introduction to Scenes from American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction (1973). [ 7 ] "The Voyage to Rosewood" is representative of the stories in the collection The Goddess and Other Women "depicting a teenage girl on the brink of existential self-definition". [ 8 ]
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart is a 1990 novel by American novelist Joyce Carol Oates. [1] The title is taken from "In the Desert", a poem by Stephen Crane. Oates's novel was nominated for best work of fiction in the 1990 National Book Awards. [2]
Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne’s studies in short fiction; no. 57. Twayne Publishers, New York. ISBN 0-8057-0857-X; Oates, Joyce Carol. 1986. Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. Vanguard Press, New York. ISBN 978-0814907931; Romano, John. 1977. “A Way With Madness” The New York Times, October 23, 1977.
Joanne V. Creighton points out both the differences and the similarities between the two volumes: . Less often set in Eden County than the stories in By the North Gate, those in Upon the Sweeping Flood embody some of the same themes: the groping of inarticulate people for order and meaning and the discovery of hidden, unlovely depth of passion or of emptiness within one's self.
A Garden of Earthly Delights is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Vanguard in 1967. Her second book published, it is the first in her "Wonderland Quartet" followed by Expensive People (1968), them (1969), and Wonderland (1971). It was a finalist for the 1968 annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1]