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(Woman) writer : occasions and opportunities / Joyce Carol Oates.
LIBRA - Special PS3565.A8 W56 1988b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Essays.
- Genre:
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 402 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Advance Uncorrected Proofs.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton, [1988]
- Summary:
- 27 essays. Includes material on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein; Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre; Herman Melville and Moby Dick; Henry David Thoreau; Emily Dickinson; Susan Warner and Diana; Robert Louis Stevenson and The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Mike Tyson; Annie Johnson; Winslow Homer; George Bellows; Ernest Hemingway; and the Gorbachevs.
- Contents:
- 1. Does the writer exist?: Beginnings
- (Woman) writer: theory and practice
- The art of self-criticism
- The dream of the "sacred text"
- Does the writer exist?
- literature as pleasure, pleasure as literature
- Against nature
- 2. Wonderlands: Wonderlands
- Frankenstein's fallen angel
- Jane Eyre: an introduction
- Moby Dick: an American book of wonders
- Looking for Thoreau
- "Soul At the white heat"
- The romance of Emily Dickinson's poetry
- Pleasure, duty, redemption then and now
- Susan Warner's Diana
- Jekyll/Hyde
- Kafka as storyteller
- 3. In the ring: Mike Tyson
- Blood, neon, and failure in the desert
- Tyson/Biggs: postscript
- 4. A miscellany: Annie Johnson: a "lost" New England artist
- "Life, vigor, fire": the watercolors of Winslow Homer
- George Bellows: the boxing paintings
- The Hemingway mystique
- "Food" as poetry
- "Where are you going, where have you been?" and Smooth talk: short story into film
- "State-of-the-art car": the Ferrari Testarossa
- Budapest journal: May 1980
- Visions of Detroit
- Meeting the Gorbachevs
- 5. Selves and pseudonymous selves: Five prefaces: Them ; Bellefleur ; Mysteries of Winterthurn ; Marya: a life ; You must remember this
- Pseudonymous selves.
- Notes:
- "A William Abrahams book."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has "Bound Galley Information" laid in at front.
- OCLC:
- 927345824
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