Bibliograph

In rough country, essays and reviews, Joyce Carol Oates

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Label

In rough country, essays and reviews, Joyce Carol Oates

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-396)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In rough country

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

456180742

Responsibility statement

Joyce Carol Oates

Sub title

essays and reviews

Summary

This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is both the treacherous geographical/psychological terrains of the writers she analyses--Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, and Margaret Atwood among others--and also the emotional terrain of Oates's own life following the unexpected death of her husband

Table Of Contents

A Poe memoir -- The woman in white : Emily Dickinson and friends -- Cast a cold eye : Jean Stafford -- The art of vengeance : Roald Dahl -- Revisiting Nabokov's Lolita -- Shirley Jackson's witchcraft : We have always lived in the castle -- "As you are grooved, so you are grieved" : the art and the craft of Bernard Malamud -- "Large and startling figures" : the fiction of Flannery O'Connor -- Boxing : history, art, culture -- Remembering John Updike -- Homer & Langley : E.L. Doctorow -- In rough country I : Cormac McCarthy -- In rough country II : Annie Proulx -- Enchanted! Salman Rushdie -- Philip Roth's tragic jokes -- A photographer's lives : Annie Leibovitz -- "The great heap of days" : James Salter's fiction -- Margaret Atwood's tales -- In the emperor's dream house : Claire Messud -- After the apocalypse : Jim Crace -- The story of X : Susanna Moore's In the cut -- "It doesn't feel personal" : The poetry of Sharon Olds -- Too much happiness : the stories of Alice Munro -- Nostalgia 1970 : city on fire -- The myth of the "American idea" : 2007 -- "Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?," address upon receiving the 2007 Humanist of the Year Award -- In the absence of mentors/monsters : notes on writerly influences -- Revisiting Lockport, New York

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