Joyce Carol Oates

Standard Name: Oates, Joyce Carol

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Barbara Pym
Pym is not one of those women writers whose stock has risen through feminist re-evaluation. Five years after the influential Times Literary Supplement article was published, Penelope Lively wrote, I am always surprised that the...
Literary responses Tillie Olsen
Margaret Atwood praised the message but faulted the scrapbook form (as did other commentators, too). Joyce Carol Oates in the New Republic criticised the book for inconsistencies and inaccuracies.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
279
Book Review Index. Gale Research.
4 (1969-1979): 355
Pearlman, Mickey, and Abby H. P. Werlock. Tillie Olsen. Twayne, 1991.
143
Literary Setting Eva Figes
The novel's setting is Monet's house in the beautiful old village of Giverny, where many other artists came to visit him and his family. He did many famous paintings in the immediate vicinity, including...
Textual Features Doris Lessing
Of Martha's twin quests, that for emotional fulfilment brings her more pain and loss than pleasure, and that for a viable political creed is no more fruitful. She becomes a Communist, and is later dismayed...

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Texts

Welty, Eudora. “A Sweet Devouring”. The Best American Essays of the Century, edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000, pp. 246-51.
Oates, Joyce Carol. “Singing the pathologies of our time”. The New York Times Book Review.