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Literary critic Elizabeth Pochoda writing in The New York Times opens her review of The Seduction and Other Stories defending Oates against unnamed critics who equate her immense literary output with “second-rate” writers. [6] Pochoda argues that Oates’s output, style and narrative are matched to the author’s social and literary concerns:
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.
The Girl with the Blackened Eye: A 15-year-old girl is forcibly abducted and held hostage for several days in the hands of a serial rapist and killer. Part Two Cumberland Breakdown: After a fire kills their father and their mother becomes reclusive, a girl and her brother go and find the house of the family who started the fire.
Literary critic Wendy Lesser in The New York Times reports that Oates’s “own enormous body of work” has become a burden that the author carries into her collection Heat and Other Stories, which deal largely with “parent-child struggles.” [5] Lesser offers the story “Shopping” as an example of Oates’s thematic concerns in this volume: the story is not a Gothic horror reminiscent ...
The author of more than 50 novels, including “Blonde, ” a fictional account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, Oates has often drawn from historical people and events. In “Butcher,” she pulls ...
“In The Assignation, one of Oates’s two collections of ‘miniature narratives,’ such tales as “Blue-Bearded Lover” and “The Others" recall nineteenth-century Gothic literature, while others convey the kind of hothouse psychological intensity, the precarious balance between sanity and madness, traditionally associated with the genre.” [7]
Barbara suffers, knowing that a nonentity like Dorie has captivated her husband. Dorie's effort to clean up after the slovenly Arber family humiliates Barbara. She compensates by overeating. Three months have passed. Mark makes an unexpected visit to Barbara's writing loft. He informs her that Dorrie is pregnant, a situation he blames on the girl.
Johnson, Greg (1994). Joyce Carol Oates: a study of the short fiction. Twayne's studies in short fiction. New York: Twayne publ. ISBN 978-0-8057-0857-8. Lercangee, Francine. 1986. Joyce Carol Oates: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Publishing, New York and London. ISBN 0-8240-8908-1; Oates, Joyce Carol (1992). The Goddess and Other Women. New ...
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