In rough country : essays and reviews /: essays and reviews. (©2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joyce Carol Oates.
• Other Names: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
• Contents: Classics. A Poe memoir ; The woman in white : Emily Dickinson and friends ; Cast a cold eye : Jean Stafford ; The art of vengeance : Roald Dahl ; Revisiting Nabokov's Lolita ; Shirley Jackson's witchcraft : We have always lived in the castle ; "As you are grooved, so you are grieved" : the art and the craft of Bernard Malamud ; "Large and startling figures" : the fiction of Flannery O'Connor ; Boxing : history, art, culture -- Contemporaries. Remembering John Updike ; Homer & Langley : E.L. Doctorow ; In rough country I : Cormac McCarthy ; In rough country II : Annie Proulx ; Enchanted! : Salman Rushdie ; Philip Roth's tragic jokes ; A photographer's lives : Annie Leibovitz ; "The great heap of days" : James Salter's fiction ; Margaret Atwood's tales ; In the emperor's dream house : Claire Messud ; After the apocalypse : Jim Crace ; The story of X : Susanna Moore's In the cut ; "It doesn't feel personal" : the poetry of Sharon Olds ; Too much happiness : the stories of Alice Munro -- Nostalgias. Nostalgia 1970 : city on fire ; The myth of the "American idea" : 2007 ; "Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?" : address upon receiving the 2007 Humanist of the Year Award ; In the absence of mentors/monsters : notes on writerly influences ; Revisiting Lockport, New York.
• Publisher Details: New York : Ecco
• Publication Date: 2010
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 396 pages)
• Subjects: 814.54; American literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century; Criticism -- 21st century; LITERARY CRITICISM & COLLECTIONS; American literature; Criticism; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062008589; 0062008587
• Related ISBNs: 9780061963988; 0061963984
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-396).; Note: Print version record.
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