Lavish self-divisions: the novels of Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates's authorial voice is lavishly diverse. In her works she divides herself into many voices, many persons. This up-to-date examination of Oates's novels argues that the father-identified daughters in her early novels have become, in the novels of the 1980s, self-authoring wo...

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1. Verfasser: Daly, Brenda O. 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson Univ. Press of Mississippi 1996
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Zusammenfassung:Joyce Carol Oates's authorial voice is lavishly diverse. In her works she divides herself into many voices, many persons. This up-to-date examination of Oates's novels argues that the father-identified daughters in her early novels have become, in the novels of the 1980s, self-authoring women who seek alliances with their culturally devalued mothers. Oates's struggle to resist and transform male-defined literary conventions is often mirrored by the struggles of her female characters to resist and transform social conventions.
Beschreibung:XXIV, 278 Seiten
ISBN:0878058850

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