| Description |
xxxi, 180 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Critical essays on American literature |
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Critical essays on American literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
By the north gate / James McConkey -- Fatal fascinations / Jan Hamilton -- Upon the sweeping flood / David Madden -- Versions of rural America / Richard Clark Sterne -- What is reality? / Granville Hicks -- Mirage-seekers / John L'Heureux -- Necessity in art of a reflective intelligence / Benjamin DeMott -- Vivid and dazzling / Calvin Bedient -- Terror of love / Charles Lam Markmann -- Everyday monsters / Peter S. Prescott -- Only prairie dog mounds / Ronald D. Feo -- Two major novelists all by herself / Sara Sanborn -- Hungry ghosts / John Alfred Avant -- Assassins / Anonymous -- Possessive material / Irving Malin -- Night-side / Robert Phillips -- Hungry for God / Victoria Glendinning -- Only control : the novels of Joyce Carol Oates / Robert H. Fossum -- The language of tragedy and violence / Mary Kathryn Grant -- Artificial demon : Joyce Carol Oates and the dimensions of the real / Walter Sullivan -- Don't you know who I am? The grotesque in Oates's Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce M. Wegs -- Suburban molesters : Joyce Carol Oates' Expensive people / Sanford Pinsker -- Journey from the 'I' to the 'eye' : wonderland -- Paedomorphic art : Joyce Carol Oates' Childwold / Eileen T. Bender -- Poetry of Joyce Carol Oates / Peter Stevens -- Unliberated women in Joyce Carol Oates's fiction / Joanne V. Creighton -- [On Joyce Carol Oates] / Alfred Kazin -- Through obsession to transcendence : the Lawrentian mode of Oates's recent fiction / G.F. Waller. |
| Subject |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Wagner-Martin, Linda.
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| ISBN |
0816182248 |
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