437 research outputs found
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
No full textOn New Year\u27s Day, 1973, Joyce Carol Oates began keeping a journal that she maintains to this present day. When the journals began, 34–year–old Oates was already a recipient of the National Book Award (1969), with many O. Henry awards, and others, under her literary belt. For all her warm critical reception, however, the author had been (and would remain) fairly reticent about the personal details of her life and background.
Housed in her archive at Syracuse University, the journals run to more than 5,000 single–spaced typewritten pages. This volume focuses on excerpts from that first decade, 1973–1983, one of the most productive of Oates\u27s long career.
What emerges is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young woman, fully engaged with her world and her culture, a writer who paradoxically fancied herself invisible but who was quickly becoming one of the most respected, discussed, and controversial figures in American letters
Book review: Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): a musical life, by Jennifer L. Oates
No full textBook review of: Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): a musical life (Music in 19th-Century Britain) by Jennifer L. Oates. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013; ISBN 9780754661832 (£60.00)Publisher PD
The Dream Boxes of Gloria Vanderbilt
No full textJoyce Carol Oates is the author most recently of Middle Age: A Romance (Ecco/HarperCollins), and, in 1995, George Bellows: American Artist (Ecco)
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
No full textWith Oates\u27s cooperation and that of her family, friends, and acquaintances, Johnson provides a comprehensive close-up and personal view of the prolific, controversial 20th-century writer. From Oates\u27s birth in Lockport, New York, to her present life in Princeton, New Jersey, Johnson skillfully interweaves the background, personality, character, lifestyle, and writings of the author. Through this fascinating and well-written biography, readers will feel that they know Oates almost as well as anyone can and may find themselves vacillating between great admiration and empathy for the life of this writer possessed by an insatiable desire for writing, but also possessing an unstoppable, inventive imagination and the incredible energy necessary to feed the desire. Whether or not a fan of Oates\u27s writings, anyone interested in literary biography should read this intriguing account of the extraordinary life of a writer
My Sister, My Love
No full textJoyce Carol Oates, author, My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike, on this thinly fictionalized account of the death of JonBenet Ramsey and satire of contemporary American society
My Sister, My Love
No full textJoyce Carol Oates, author, My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike, on this thinly fictionalized account of the death of JonBenet Ramsey and satire of contemporary American society
The master and the bedpan: Henry James confronting trash in David Lodge’s author author (2004) and Joyce Carol Oates “The master at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1914-1916” (2007)
No full textThis paper aims to discuss two recent biofictional narratives featuring Henry James as their protagonist – Lodge’s Author Author and Oates’s ‘The Master at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1914-1916’ – in relation to the theme of trash. Lodge and Oates both draw on Jamesian criticism (Forster, Wells, Edel) and his comments on the French Naturalists to present James as a snobbish author repelled by the sight and smell of bodily fluids, gangrenous flesh, excrements and ‘perverse’ sexual practices, which he has always refused to write about. However, human life is not only made by ‘the elegant flowering [of] civilization’, but also by what James deemed as unspeakable: in Oates’s short-story the fictional James realizes it while ministering to maimed soldiers at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. ‘In all of the Master's prose, not one bedpan’, he sadly exclaims, acknowledging his refusal as an impairing inability. Thus, throughout the narration the Master is increasingly confined to silence while the third person narrator lingers on physiological acts and bodily trash. Similarly, in Lodge’s novel James is described as an old man farting, urinating and obliged to talk about them to his great discomfort. In both works there is ‘an infringement of the Jamesian propriety’ (see Hollinghurst) which interestingly unveils a task confronting the contemporary writer. These biofictional narratives are indeed a locus of anxiety and identification where discussing the challenges of writing. James’s questioning his own inabilities refracts Lodge and Oates’ urgency of finding a language that expresses all aspects of life, including trash
Review of Joyce Carol Oates\u27s \u3cem\u3eNight. Sleep. Death. The Stars.\u3c/em\u3e
No full textA review of Joyce Carol Oates\u27s novel Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. considering its relation to current social protests and previous works by the author
The end of adolescence in "Four Summers" in Oates's The Wheel of Love
No full textP(論文)This interpretative study of J. C. Oates' s "Four Summers" concludes my analysis of all twenty stories in The Wheel of Love. This is the seventh and last study. All the stories were discussed in my previous studies appeared in this bulletin. Oates depicts another story about a young girl, her coming of age and the difficulties when she determines the choice of her partner. The life of Sissie, the main character, is view from the eyes of the author. As in previous parts, we see a character who is vacillating between hope and fear."departmental bulletin pape
Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the University Library, Cambridge
No full textJ. C. T. Oates began work at Cambridge University Library in 1936. During his long, scholarly career, which included serving as president of the Bibliographical Societies of London and Cambridge, he did much to further research at the University Library. In 1954 he published this catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books, which were not included in the main library catalogues. The catalogue lists over 4250 items, with detailed information for those not already described in other publications, and gives references to such information where it already existed. The fifteenth-century material is listed by place of publication, and is indexed by author, title if anonymous, printer, and former owners and autographs. Although modern catalogues of incunabula are now available online, Oates' catalogue is the only one allowing readers to locate items held by the Library from the earliest days of printing, and is still an important tool for researchers.</jats:p
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