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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.
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 ...
Last Days: Stories is a collection of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by E. P. Dutton in 1984. [1] The stories in this volume were originally published individually in literary journals (See Stories section below) [2]
“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]
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 ...
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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 ...