Where I've been, and where I'm going : essays, reviews, and prose, Joyce Carol Oates

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Where I've been, and where I'm going : essays, reviews, and prose, Joyce Carol Oates

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essays, reviews, and prose

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Joyce Carol Oates

Instantiates

• Where I've been, and where I'm going : essays, reviews, and prose

Publication

• New York, N.Y., Plume, ©1999

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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Contents

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, four brief pieces: The romance of art ; First principles ; Transformations of play ; The artist as perpetual antagonist -- Zero at the bone : despair as sin and enlightenment -- Art and victim art -- On fiction in fact -- F. Scott Fitzgerald revisited -- Raymond Chandler : genre and art -- René 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 : Jeffrey Dahmer, November 1994 ; Timothy James McVeigh, May 1995 ; Mike Tyson, July 1997 -- I had no other thrill or happiness : the literature of serial killers -- 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) -- 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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ocm39930369

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21 cm

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xii, 386 pages

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9780452280533

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98045234

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u100752

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(OCoLC)39930369