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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.
The stories are unified by interrelated themes which she names in the collection's epigraph, Walt Whitman's poem "A Clear Midnight:" This is thy hour O soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done. Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best:
- 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 ]
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.
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 York City: Vanguard ...
Oates, Joyce Carol. 1975. The Seduction and Other Stories. Black Sparrow Press, San Francisco. ISBN 978-0876852286; Pochoda, Elizabeth. 1975. "Joyce Carol Oates Honoring the Complexities of the Real World." The New York Times, August 31, 1975. Joyce Carol Oates honoring the complexities of the real world Retrieved 10 November, 2023.
“The Dead” is told from a third-person point-of-view, with Ilena, 29-years-old when the story opens, as the focal character.. Ilena is a recent divorcee living in Buffalo, New York and teaching literature courses part-time at a Catholic university when the story opens.