Uncensored: Views & (Re)views
Autor Joyce Carol Oatesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2006
Oates states in her preface, "In the essay or review, the dynamic of storytelling is hidden but not absent," and indeed, the voice of these "conversations" echoes the voice of her fiction in its dramatic directness, ethical perspective, and willingness to engage the reader in making critical judgments. Under the heading "Not a Nice Person," such controversial figures as Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, and Muriel Spark are considered without sentimentality or hyperbole; under "Our Contemporaries, Ourselves," such diversely talented figures as William Trevor, E. L. Doctorow, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Connelly, Alice Sebold, Mary Karr, Anne Tyler, and Ann Patchett are examined. In sections of "homages" and "revisits," Oates writes with enthusiasm and clarity of such cultural icons as Emily Brontë, Ernest Hemingway, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, Balthus, and Muhammad Ali ("The Greatest"); after a lapse of decades, she (re)considers the first film version of Bram Stoker'sDracula, andAmericana, Don DeLillo's first novel, as well as the morality of selling private letters and the nostalgic significance of making a pilgrimage to Henry David Thoreau's Walden Pond.
Through these balanced and illuminating essays we see Oates at the top of her form, engaged with forebears and contemporaries, providing clues to her own creative process: "For prose is a kind of music: music creates 'mood.' What is argued on the surface may be but ripples rising from a deeper, subtextual urgency."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060775575
ISBN-10: 0060775572
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: HARPERCOLLINS;
Colecția Ecco
ISBN-10: 0060775572
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: HARPERCOLLINS;
Colecția Ecco
Recenzii
“It’s
useful
to
know
what
good
writers
are
reading
and
thinking
about...[Oates]
seldom
disappoints.”
“Utterly at home in literature, she writes naturally about books with vigor and pleasure.”
“Utterly at home in literature, she writes naturally about books with vigor and pleasure.”
Notă biografică
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.