Conversations With Joyce Carol Oates

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These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In these conversations from sources as diverse as major news magazines and small scholarly journals, Oates candidly talks about her work, her concepts of literature, her methods of writing, and many other topics. Throughout this anthology, Oates discusses how her writing paints a modern panorama of American life. Oates described her vast canvas to an interviewer: ""I could not take the time to write about a group of people who did not represent, in their various struggles, fantasies, unusual experiences, hopes, etc., our society in miniature."" She also comments upon her responsibility as an artist ""to bear witness"" to certain aspects of society. In this light, she responds to criticisms that violence seems to dominate her work by noting that ""one simply cannot know strengths unless suffering, misfortune, and violence are explored quite frankly by the writer.""In addition to discussing her works---from her first book By the North Gate (1963) to her most popular novel You Must Remember This (1987)---this prolific writer also answers questions about her writing habits. These interviews, spanning nineteen years, reveal a vivid portrait of Joyce Carol Oates writing as the conscience of society, as the creator of memorable prose and poetry, and as the artist deeply committed to a unique vision.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release : 1989
File : 216 Pages
ISBN-13 : 087805412X


Joyce Carol Oates Letters To A Biographer

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This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates's letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her mastery of the lost art of letter writing. "It's hard to think of another writer with as fecund and protean an imagination as the eighty-five-year-old Joyce Carol Oates, who is surely on any short list of America's greatest living writers." —New York Times Magazine In this generous selection of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters to her biographer and friend Greg Johnson, readers will discover a never-before-seen dimension of her phenomenal talent. In 1975, when Johnson was a graduate student, he first wrote to Oates, already a world-famous author, and drew an appreciative, empathetic response. Soon the two began a fairly intense, largely epistolary friendship that would last until the present day. As time passed, letters became faxes, and faxes became emails, but the energy and vividness of Oates’s writing never abated. Her letters were often sprinkled with the names of well-known public figures, from John Updike and Toni Morrison to Steve Martin and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. There are also descriptions of far-flung travels she undertook with her first husband, the scholar and editor Raymond Smith, and with her second, the distinguished Princeton neuroscientist Charlie Gross. But much of Oates’s prose centered on the pleasures of her home life, including her pet cats and the wildlife outside her study window. Whereas her academic essays and book reviews are eloquent in a formal manner, in these letters she is wholly relaxed, even when she is serious in her concerns. Like Johnson, she was always engaged in work, whether a long novel or a brief essay, and the letters give a fascinating glimpse into Oates’s writing practice.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Akashic Books
Release : 2024-03-05
File : 252 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781636141176


A Study Guide For Joyce Carol Oates S Them

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A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "Them," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
Release : 2016-07-12
File : 33 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781410360250


A Study Guide For Joyce Carol Oates S Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

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A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
Release : 2016-07-12
File : 29 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781410344724


A Study Guide For Joyce Carol Oates S Four Summers

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
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File : 26 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781410346414


A Study Guide For Joyce Carol Oates S Stalking

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A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "Stalking," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
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File : 29 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781410359100


A Study Guide For Joyce Carol Oates S We Were The Mulvaneys

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A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "We Were the Mulvaneys," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Release : 2016-06-29
File : 35 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781410340979


 A Study Guide For Joyce Carol Oates S Three Girls

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"A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's ""Three Girls"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs."

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gale, Cengage
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Release : 2018-12-13
File : 24 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780028665566


A Study Guide For Joyce Carol Oates S How I Contemplated The World

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A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "How I Contemplated the World," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Release : 2016-07-14
File : 27 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781410348517


Conversations With Contemporary American Writers Saul Bellow I B Singer Joyce Carol Oates David Madden Barry Beckham Josephine Miles Gerald Stern Stephen Dunn Etheridge Knight Marilynne Robinson And William Stafford

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Sanford Pinsker
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2021-11-08
File : 140 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004488465