Uncensored views & (re)views /
A collection of thirty-seven essays, reviews, and works of criticism includes discussions of key works by Sylvia Plath, Emily Brontë, and Ernest Hemingway.
| Main Author: | Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Ecco,
[2005]
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| Physical Description: |
xiii, 370 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- "Not a nice person"
- Uncensored Sylvia Plath
- "Restoring" Willie Stark
- Catherizing Willa
- Merciless Highsmith
- "Glutton for punishment": Richard Yates
- "Not a nice person": Muriel Spark
- Our contemporaries, ourselves
- Irish elegy: William Trevor
- "Our cheapened dreams" : E.L. Doctorow
- "Despair of living": Anita Brookner
- An artist of the floating world: Kazuo Ishiguro
- "City of light": Robert Drewe's The Shark Net
- L.A. noir: Michael Connelly
- Ringworm belt: memoirs by Mary Karr
- Evolutionary fever: Andrea Barrett's Servants of the Map
- "New memoir": Alice Sebold's Lucky
- Property of: Valerie Martin's Property
- Programmed by art: David Lodge's Thinks ...
- Ghosts: Hilary Mantel
- An endangered species: short stories
- News from everywhere: short stories
- Mythmaking realist: Pat Barker
- Crazy for love: Scott Spencer's A Ship Made of Paper
- Amateurs: Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage
- Memoirs of crisis: Ann Patchett's Truth & Beauty
- Homages
- Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
- "Tragic mulatta": Clotel, or, the President's Daughter
- Ernest Hemingway
- "You are the we of me": Carson McCullers
- Remembering Robert Lowell
- "About whom nothing is known": Balthus
- In the ring and out: Jack Johnson
- Muhammad Ali: "The Greatest"
- (Re) visits
- Vampire's secret: (re)viewing Tod Browning's Dracula after forty years
- Don DeLillo's Americana (1971) revisited
- Them revisited
- A Garden of Earthly Delights revisited
- On the composition of I Lock my Door Upon Myself
- Private writings, public betrayals
- Pilgrimage to Walden Pond: 1962, 2003.