In rough country : essays and reviews

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Book 2010

This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is both the treacherous geographical/psychological terrains of the writers she analyses--Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, and Margaret Atwood among others--and also the emotional terrain of Oates's own life following the unexpected death of her hu...

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American essays 21st century

Criticism 21st century

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ISBN:

9780061963988
0061963984

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xviii, 396 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

A Poe memoir
The woman in white : Emily Dickinson and friends
Cast a cold eye : Jean Stafford
The art of vengeance : Roald Dahl
Revisiting Nabokov's Lolita
Shirley Jackson's witchcraft : We have always lived in the castle
"As you are grooved, so you are grieved" : the art and the craft of Bernard Malamud
"Large and startling figures" : the fiction of Flannery O'Connor
Boxing : history, art, culture
Remembering John Updike
Homer & Langley : E.L. Doctorow
In rough country I : Cormac McCarthy
In rough country II : Annie Proulx
Enchanted! Salman Rushdie
Philip Roth's tragic jokes
A photographer's lives : Annie Leibovitz
"The great heap of days" : James Salter's fiction
Margaret Atwood's tales
In the emperor's dream house : Claire Messud
After the apocalypse : Jim Crace
The story of X : Susanna Moore's In the cut
"It doesn't feel personal" : The poetry of Sharon Olds
Too much happiness : the stories of Alice Munro
Nostalgia 1970 : city on fire
The myth of the "American idea" : 2007
"Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?," address upon receiving the 2007 Humanist of the Year Award
In the absence of mentors/monsters : notes on writerly influences
Revisiting Lockport, New York

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715061

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