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1st ed. |
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xiii, 370 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Contents |
"Not a nice person" -- Uncensored Sylvia Plath -- "Restoring" Willie Stark -- Catherizing Willa -- Merciless Highsmith -- "Glutton for punishment": Richard Yates -- "Not a nice person": Muriel Spark -- Our contemporaries, ourselves -- Irish elegy: William Trevor -- "Our cheapened dreams" : E.L. Doctorow -- "Despair of living": Anita Brookner -- An artist of the floating world: Kazuo Ishiguro -- "City of light": Robert Drewe's The Shark Net -- L.A. noir: Michael Connelly -- Ringworm belt: memoirs by Mary Karr -- Evolutionary fever: Andrea Barrett's Servants of the Map -- "New memoir": Alice Sebold's Lucky -- Property of: Valerie Martin's Property -- Programmed by art: David Lodge's Thinks ... -- Ghosts: Hilary Mantel -- An endangered species: short stories -- News from everywhere: short stories -- Mythmaking realist: Pat Barker -- Crazy for love: Scott Spencer's A Ship Made of Paper -- Amateurs: Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage -- Memoirs of crisis: Ann Patchett's Truth & Beauty -- Homages -- Emily Brontė's Wuthering Heights -- "Tragic mulatta": Clotel, or, the President's Daughter -- Ernest Hemingway -- "You are the we of me": Carson McCullers -- Remembering Robert Lowell -- "About whom nothing is known": Balthus -- In the ring and out: Jack Johnson -- Muhammad Ali: "The Greatest" -- (Re) visits -- The vampire's secret: (re)viewing Tod Browning's Dracula after forty years -- Don DeLillo's Americana (1971) revisited -- Them revisited -- A Garden of Earthly Delights revisited -- On the composition of I Lock my Door Upon Myself -- Private writings, public betrayals -- Pilgrimage to Walden Pond: 1962, 2003. |
| Summary |
A collection of thirty-seven essays, reviews, and works of criticism includes discussions of key works by Sylvia Plath, Emily Brontė, and Ernest Hemingway. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-370). |
| Subject |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- -- Manuscripts.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (OCoLC)fst00029107
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Oates, Joyce Carol.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Books -- Reviews.
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Books. (OCoLC)fst00836401
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Literature, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01000172
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Manuscripts. (OCoLC)fst01008230
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Publizistik (DE-588)4047770-8
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Literaturkritik (DE-588)4036020-9
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| Genre/Form |
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Reviews. (OCoLC)fst01423760
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Essays.
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| ISBN |
0060775564 (alk. paper) |
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9780060775568 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780060775568 |
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