Where I've been and where I'm going : essays, reviews, prose / by Joyce Carol Oates
- Bib ID:
- 290632
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Description:
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- New York : Plume, 1999
- 386 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0452280532
- Full contents:
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- I. Where Is an Author? Where Is an Author? "In Olden Times, When Wishing Was Having ...": Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales. The Aesthetics of Fear. Art and Ethics? - The F(U)tility of Art. The Romance of Art: Brief Pieces. "Zero at the Bone": Despair as Sin and Enlightenment. Art and "Victim Art" On Fiction in Fact
- II. "I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness": Reviews, Review-Essays, Journalism. F. Scott Fitzgerald Revisited. Raymond Chandler: Genre and "Art" Rene Magritte: Art Contra Art. After the Road: The Art of Jack Kerouac. Haunted Sylvia Plath. The Enigmatic Art of Paul Bowles. Jean Stafford: Biography as Pathography. To Bedlam: Anne Sexton. Bellow's Portraits. John Updike's Rabbit. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Colored People. John Edgar Wideman: Memoir and Fiction. Exile and Homeland: Brian Moore. Updike Toward the End of Time. Inside the Locked Room: P. D. James. A Dream of Justice: Dorothy L. Sayers. Lost in Boxing. The Miniaturist Art of Grace Paley.
- American Views: Elizabeth Hardwick. Three American Gothics. "I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness": The Literature of Serial Killers
- III. "The Madness of Art": Essays and Introductions. "Then All Collapsed": Tragic Melville. The Essential Emily Dickinson. "The Madness of Art": Henry James's "The Middle Years" The Riddle of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" Rediscovering Harold Frederic's: The Damnation of Theron Ware. Tragic Conrad: Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman: A Celebration. Killer Kids. Workings of Grace: Flannery O'Connor's "The Artificial Nigger" Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942: Painting and Poem. The Artist Looks at Nature: Some Works of Charles Sheeler (1883-1965)
- IV. Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going: Prefaces, Afterwords. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Selected Early Short Stories: Afterword. Expensive People: The Confessions of a "Minor Character" Wonderland Revisited. "American, Abroad"
- "Why Don't You Come Live with Me It's Time" Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang. "You Petted Me, and I Followed You Home" "Mark of Satan" Will You Always Love Me? "Ghost Girls"
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- Also Titled:
- Where I have been, and where I am going
- Copyright:
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