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Johnson concurs that the girl “enacts a conservative retreat into her corrupt, loveless, but physically safe home,” but adds this observation: Oates nevertheless suggests that the girl’s struggle toward self-hood continues despite the obstacles of American materialism, violence, and enforced feminine subservience she has begun to ...
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.
“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]
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 ...
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. 1975. The Seduction and Other Stories.
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.
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 stories in Haunted are written in the tradition of Gothic literature with a postmodernist orientation. [4] Literary critic Greg Johnson observes that these “ ‘tales’ are integral to Oates’s larger endeavor in fiction, which is to probe relentlessly the complex mysteries of human personality and identity.” [5]