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Literary critic Greg Johnson registers a sharp rebuke to fellow critic Mary Kathryn Grant’s assessment that “what is finally disconcerting about Oates’s women is that they are weak, spiritually impoverished, devoid of beauty, morally bankrupt - in a word, unfeminine.” [9] Johnson declares that Oates’s characterizations of women in ...
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.
The reviewer judges the collection “Vintage Oates—always interesting, though not always pleasant.” [5] Publishers Weekly offered a mixed appraisal to the collection, observing that the fiction “offers brilliant bursts of energy that are both dazzling and disappointing for their ephemeral nature” but adding that the stories “reveal a ...
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.
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 ...
[10] [11] Here Oates suggests three themes: the reciprocity of love and violence; purported love as merely an obsessive bid for personal power; and the displacement of a formidable sexual rival as a substitute for securing genuine intimacy with a lover. [12] Johnson writes:
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:
According to literary critic Greg Johnson, the most outstanding features of Marriages and Infidelities are its “use of allusion” and the examination of “literary tradition.” The result is “the boldest and most ambitious” of Oates’s short-story collections. [ 10 ]