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Anglický jazyk
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
Autor: Joyce Carol Oates
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... Viac o knihe
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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
- Vydavateľstvo: University Press of Mississippi
- Rok vydania: 1989
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780878054121
