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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 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 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 Dead (Oates short story) The Fine White Mist of Winter; The Girl (short story) The Goddess (short story) The Lady With the Pet Dog; The Metamorphosis (1971 story) The Seduction and Other Stories; The Voyage to Rosewood
“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 Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 (2007) In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters (2009) In Rough Country (2010) A Widow's Story: A Memoir (2011) Joyce Carol Oates creates Evangeline Fife, who interviews Robert Frost: Lovely, Dark, Deep (2013) published in "Dead Interviews" [4] — (June 10–17, 2013). "After Black Rock". True Crimes. The ...
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.
Oates at her worst. Of the 25 stories, three are acceptable…The charge is often made that Oates writes too quickly and too much; but the same working habits that produced The Goddess also produced her last two big collections, which contain, along with some tripe, some of the best stories in the language. Oates can’t work in any other way.