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A 'Fourth Way' to Tell the Story: Fact and Fiction in Three Novels by Joyce Carol Oates

A 'Fourth Way' to Tell the Story: Fact and Fiction in Three Novels by Joyce Carol Oates

Miceli, Barbara
Wilczyński, Marek

Hardcover

Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture, Book 36

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631867921
ISBN13: 9783631867921
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Nov 19 2021
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This study is an analysis of the novels Black Water (1992), Blonde (2000), and My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates. Based on real-life characters (Mary Jo Kopechne, Marilyn Monroe, JonBenét Ramsey), these works blend fact and fiction, historical and poetic truth, and create a new way to recount facts that allow the writer to give a new voice to people who cannot speak for themselves anymore. The present book addresses the stories behind the novels, their genre and stylistic features, but is also an exploration of several aspects of American culture and society and their issues connected to consumerism, the cult of beauty and celebrity, and how they affect American women's lives and power relations with men.

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