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Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

Milazzo, Lee
Oates, Joyce Carol

Paperback

Series: Literary Conversations

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 087805412X
ISBN13: 9780878054121
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Nov 1 1989
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In these conversations from sources as diverse as major news magazines and small scholarly journals, Oates candidly talks about her work, her concepts of literature, her methods of writing, and many other topics.

Throughout this anthology, Oates discusses how her writing paints a modern panorama of American life. Oates described her vast canvas to an interviewer: I could not take the time to write about a group of people who did not represent, in their various struggles, fantasies, unusual experiences, hopes, etc., our society in miniature. She also comments upon her responsibility as an artist to bear witness to certain aspects of society. In this light, she responds to criticisms that violence seems to dominate her work by noting that one simply cannot know strengths unless suffering, misfortune, and violence are explored quite frankly by t

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