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Studies in the Novel articles from December 2006
An international literary quarterly that publishes literary criticism and scholarship on the novel. Includes essays on well-known and lesser-known novelists of all periods and countries. Contents include essays, reviews of recent books on novels and novel
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Studies in the Novel archives from December 2006
Introduction: humility, audacity and the novels of Joyce Carol Oates.
December 22, 2006... "The critic should and really must begin from a position of utter humility," wrote Joyce Carol Oates in a 1970s journal entry. "So too the novelist, confronting his or her oceanic material, and the living, breathing, stubborn characters who...
Joyce Carol Oates: writer, colleague, friend.
December 22, 2006... Joyce Carol Oates is someone I have known as a writer, a colleague, and a friend. As a friend, she is attentive and loving, though she's not above a bit of light teasing. She's always teasing me about having known so many people and lived in so...
Space, property and the psyche: violent topographies in early Oates novels.(Joyce Carol Oates)
December 22, 2006... When our living rooms were invaded by televised images of the French riots that began in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in October 2005, my mind traveled back to the last pages of Oates's early masterpiece, them (1969). Like the...
Why can't Jesse read?: ethical identity in Wonderland.
December 22, 2006... Wonderland, a tour de force even among the many impressive novels of Joyce Carol Oates, traces the transformations of Jesse Harte Pederson Vogel from his own father's attempt to murder the boy through his career as a neurosurgeon. According to...
Psychic visions and quantum physics: Oates's Big Bang and the limits of language.(Joyce Carol Oates)
December 22, 2006... "... and Mrs. Thayer murmured in reply, her blue gaze passing through me as it's said those infinitesimal sub-atomic particles called neutrinos pass through solid matter continuously, 'My dear, you are welcome.'"
--Oates, I'll Take You...
"What does it mean to be a woman?": the daughter's story in Oates's novels.(Joyce Carol Oates)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2006... "It is hard to write about my own mother. Whatever I do write, it is my own story I am telling, my version of the past," claims Adrienne Rich (221). So too are daughters in Joyce Carol Oates's fiction caught in the liminal space between their...
The art of democracy: photography in the novels of Joyce Carol Oates/Rosamond Smith.
December 22, 2006... Photography first makes its appearance in Joyce Carol Oates's novels in Childwold when 14-year-old Laney is taken to an art exhibit, a place she has never been before. While studying a wall of portrait photographs of working class people, she...
Feminism, masculinity, and nation in Joyce Carol Oates's fiction.
December 22, 2006... One of Joyce Carol Oates's great accomplishments as a contemporary writer presenting the American landscape for almost half a century is her rich documentation of cultural shifts in the US. This essay looks particularly at how her constructions...
"Why such discontent?": race, ethnicity, and masculinity in What I Lived For.
December 22, 2006... One of the most remarkable features of Joyce Carol Oates's book-length essay On Boxing (OB) is its ability to capture the paradoxical nature of its subject matter without becoming tangled in its own web of contrarieties. Mediating between the...
The fairest in the land: Blonde and Black Water, the nonfiction novels of Joyce Carol Oates.
December 22, 2006... "In the majority of the [fairy] tales, to be a heroine in even a limited sense requires extreme youth and extreme physical beauty; it would not be sufficient to be merely beautiful, one must be 'the greatest beauty in the kingdom'-'the fairest...
History and representation in The Falls.
December 22, 2006... "We have been here eight days, and I am quite willing to go away," writes Margaret Fuller of her 1843 visit to Niagara Falls (71). The June weather had been cold and Fuller finds the "incessant," "indefatigable" sound and motion of the Falls...
Murder she wrote.(Joyce Carol Oates )(Critical essay)(Reprint)
December 22, 2006... "It seems to me," Joyce Carol Oates wrote in New Heaven, New Earth, "that the great works of literature deal with the human soul caught in the stampede of time, unable to gauge the profundity of what passes over it, like the characters of Yeats...
Written interviews and a conversation with Joyce Carol Oates.(Interview)
December 22, 2006... Three written interviews with Joyce Carol Oates were conducted by mail in 1994, 1998, and e-mail in 2006. Our conversation took place in Princeton on 17 July 1998 at a time when Oates was working on Blonde. It is mostly transcribed and edited...