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Whether probing the psyche of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, evaluating the championship mettle of Mike Tyson, or illuminating the work of Herman Melville, the art of Rene Magritte and Edward Hopper, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Joyce Carol Oates displays an astonishing breadth of knowledge and interests. In this collection of nearly fifty essays, articles, and reviews, one of our country's leading literary figures and social critics explores myriad facets of the American experience, in fiction and beyond, from Fitzgerald to Plath, Melville to Updike, Flannery O'Connor to Timothy McVeigh.
Oates makes incis
Whether probing the psyche of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, evaluating the championship mettle of Mike Tyson, or illuminating the work of Herman Melville, the art of Rene Magritte and Edward Hopper, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Joyce Carol Oates displays an astonishing breadth of knowledge and interests. In this collection of nearly fifty essays, articles, and reviews, one of our country's leading literary figures and social critics explores myriad facets of the American experience, in fiction and beyond, from Fitzgerald to Plath, Melville to Updike, Flannery O'Connor to Timothy McVeigh.
Oates makes incisive connections between Kerouac and Byron, Bowles and Poe, and brings a striking originality of view to Raymond Chandler's noir hero, Philip Marlowe, and the controversy over "victim art." Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s memoir, Colored People, is "a pleasure to read, and, in the deepest sense, inspiring," while The Middle Years of Henry James portrays "the terrifying aloneness to which the demands of his art have brought him. " She explores the sexual temptations of Christina Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market, " and offers a masterful analysis of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "whose unsparing tragic vision has a particular resonance for the twentieth century with its blood tide of history. "
Also included here is Oates on Oates—personal essays on her own works, such as Expensive People, Wonderland, and Foxfire. This diverse volume offers a privileged glimpse into the mind of one of our most unique and compelling writers.
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Manufacturer: Plume
Release date: 30 April 1999
ISBN-10 : 0452280532 |
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