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Soul at the white heat : inspiration, obsession, and the writing life / Joyce Carol Oates.
LIBRA PS3565.A8 A6 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authorship.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- American literature--Criticism and interpretation.
- American literature.
- English literature--Criticism and interpretation.
- English literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- x, 390 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
- Contents:
- I. The writing life. Is the uninspired life worth living? ; This I believe : five motives for writing ; Anatomy of a story ; The writing room
- II. Classics. My life in Middlemarch : Rebecca Mead ; Charles Dickens : a life : Claire Tomalin ; "The King of Weird" : H.P. Lovecraft ; My faraway one : selected letters of Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz ; Simenons ; Two American prose masters : Ellison, Updike ; A visit with Doris Lessing (1973)
- III. Contemporaries. The childhood of Jesus : J.M. Coetzee ; The detective as visionary : Derek Raymond ; "Catastrophe in art" : Julian Barnes ; "When the legend becomes fact" : Larry McMurtry ; Paper losses : Lorrie Moore ; Emotions of man and animals : Karen Joy Fowler ; Wiindigoo justice : Louise Erdrich ; In other worlds : Margaret Atwood ; The storyteller of the "shattered personality" : Patrick McGrath ; Why be happy when you could be normal? : Jeanette Winterson ; Diminished things : Anne Tyler ; Smiling woman : Margaret Drabble ; The inventions of Jerome Charyn ; "After Auschwitz" : Martin Amis ; London NW : Zadie Smith ; Joan Didion : risk and triumph ; Unflinching about women : the short stories of Lucia Berlin ; Edna O'Brien : The little red chairs ; "Disputed truth" : Mike Tyson ; The fighter : a film by David O. Russell ; The mystery of Muhammad Ali
- IV. Real life. A visit to San Quentin (2011).
- Notes:
- Critical and personal essays.
- ISBN:
- 9780062564504
- 0062564501
- OCLC:
- 941443127
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