Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152) and index.
Contents:
Joyce Carol Oates : a portrait / Elaine Showalter. Sleeping beauty and the love like hatred / Calvin Bedient -- Joyce Carol Oates, artist in Wonderland / Gordon O. Taylor -- Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland : an introduction / G.F. Waller -- Autonomy and influence : Joyce Carol Oates's Marriages and infidelities / Eileen T. Bender -- The terrified women of Joyce Carol Oates / Mary Allen -- With shuddering fall and the process of individuation / Rose Marie Burwell -- The strange real world / John Gardner -- The house of Atreus now / Thomas R. Edwards -- Modes of survival / Frederick R. Karl -- Joyce Carol Oates : contending spirits / Samuel Chase Coale -- Joyce Carol Oates : a portrait / Elaine Showalter.
Summary:
A collection of critical essays on this well-known American writer and her works.
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