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Dark Eyes on America: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates
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Dark Eyes on America: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates Hardback - 2005

by Gavin Cologne-Brookes

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Joyce Carol Oates's unhesitating and prodigious exploration of genre, topic, and style has made her an inevitable but elusive subject for critics and scholars. Though Oates's national reputation has fluctuated, one thing can be agreed: Oates is not just America's most extraordinary woman of letters but as significant an American writer as any of her contemporaries. In this comprehensive and accessible study, Gavin Cologne-Brookes traces in Oates's novels evidence of an evolving consciousness, one that ultimately forgoes abstract introspection and the philosophical pursuit of certainty in favor of a more practical approach to art as a tool for understanding personal and social problems and possibilities. emphasizes the social value of Oates's later work in particular. He shows how Oates's willingness to enter the minds of a vast array of protagonists points to her belief in the possibility of understanding diverse American realities. At the same time, her work recognizes an often mutually incomprehensible diversity as the actual state of affairs in American society. Cologne-Brookes's extensive research and close textual study of Oates's novels result in a book that reveals her uniquely dark vision to be finally melioristic and affirmative. Dark Eyes on America will be of enormous value for understanding this protean author who cannot be reduced to a rigid thesis.

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  • Title Dark Eyes on America: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates
  • Author Gavin Cologne-Brookes
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 282
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A
  • Publication date 2005
  • ISBN 9780807129852 / 0807129852
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.58 x 1.06 in (23.47 x 16.71 x 2.69 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004011736
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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