| Love Eclipsed: Joyce Carol Oates's Faustian Moral Vision Contributor(s): Watanabe, Nancy Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761809341 ISBN-13: 9780761809340 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $95.04 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 97039846 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.23" W x 9.28" (1.01 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book demonstrates the greatness of Joyce Carol Oates, who is a nominee for a Nobel Award in Literature. Nancy Watanabe discusses Oates's previously undiscovered roots in the literatures of Europe and Asia. Watanabe's thought-provoking analyses are enhanced by a cinematically inspired principle of organization that reflects Oates's own stratagems. In a massive build-up of metaphorical links between a Copernican world of nature and actions taken by ordinary people in the course of their daily living, Oates portrays America as a land of justice that is always a step behind a Faustian desire for freedom to pursue material desires. Oates documents an eclipsing of a divinely inspired Christian love by Faustian quest. Through this study, readers will gain a broader perspective and a more accurate assessment of Oates's global significance. |