RE: JCO: Oates Quotations

all,

this is one reason why i love Bellefleur above all
other books by anyone. the below says it all. a gothic
book that could not be real, but when you are reading
it you cannot help believing it IS real...

cheers

rob

--- "Wade,Kelli L." wrote:
>
> I love the "intro" to Bellefleur ... "imagination's
> laws" - what a
> concept ...
>
> This is a work of the imagination, and must obey,
> with both humility and
> audacity, imagination's laws. That time twists and
> coils and is, now,
> obliterated, and then again powerfully present; that
> "dialogue" is in
> some cases buried in the narrative and in others
> presented in a
> conventional manner; that the implausible is granted
> an authority and
> honored with a complexity usually reserved for
> realistic fiction: the
> author has intended. Bellefleur is a region, a state
> of the soul, and it
> does exist; and there, sacrosanct, its laws are
> utterly logical.
>






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RE: JCO: Oates Quotations

from Faith of a Writer

 

"I would wish to think that serious art is transgressive, upsetting and not consoling, and that the serious artist can't really expect not to be attacked, ridiculed, dismissed …"

 

RE: JCO: Oates Quotations

I love the "intro" to Bellefleur ... "imagination's laws" - what a concept ...

 

This is a work of the imagination, and must obey, with both humility and audacity, imagination's laws. That time twists and coils and is, now, obliterated, and then again powerfully present; that "dialogue" is in some cases buried in the narrative and in others presented in a conventional manner; that the implausible is granted an authority and honored with a complexity usually reserved for realistic fiction: the author has intended. Bellefleur is a region, a state of the soul, and it does exist; and there, sacrosanct, its laws are utterly logical.

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From: owner-jco@usfca.edu [mailto:owner-jco@usfca.edu] On Behalf Of Christopher Ling
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 5:03 PM
To: jco@usfca.edu
Subject: RE: JCO: Oates Quotations

 

•“When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.”

 

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~~~Chris Ling~~~

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From: Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro@yale.edu> Reply-To: jco@usfca.edu To: jco@usfca.edu Subject: JCO: Oates Quotations Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:10:09 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mc3-f28.hotmail.com ([64.4.50.164]) by mc3-s11.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:15:12 -0800 Received: from blacksun.usfca.edu ([138.202.192.11]) by mc3-f28.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:15:10 -0800 Received: (from majordomo@localhost)by blacksun.usfca.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA06174for jco-outgoing; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:14:08 -0800 Received: from shimi.usfca.edu (shimi.usfca.edu [138.202.192.12])by blacksun.usfca.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA06171for <jco@blacksun.usfca.edu>; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:14:07 -0800 Received: from yaddle.usfca.edu (smtp.usfca.edu [138.202.192.15])by shimi.usfca.edu with ESMTP id iBR3EgqC016706for <jco@blacksun.usfca.edu>; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantheon-po05.its.yale.edu (pantheon-po05.its.yale.edu [130.132.50.34])by yaddle.usfca.edu with ESMTP id iBR3EftT014001for <jco@usfca.edu>; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ajax.its.yale.edu (ajax.its.yale.edu [130.132.52.13])by pantheon-po05.its.yale.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBR3Efjf012968(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT)for <jco@usfca.edu>; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:14:41 -0500 Received: from ajax.its.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1])by ajax.its.yale.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBR3A9oQ025259for <jco@usfca.edu>; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:10:09 -0500 Received: from localhost (shapiro@localhost)by ajax.its.yale.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id iBR3A9sj025255for <jco@usfca.edu>; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:10:09 -0500 X-Message-Info: StaYHEBmGBoxcj0ptX1wWIUfj7e/Ub2y71A8dmKEzTI= X-Authentication-Warning: ajax.its.yale.edu: shapiro owned process doing -bs X-X-Sender: shapiro@ajax.its.yale.edu X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2a (attachment(s) not renamed) Precedence: bulk Return-Path: owner-jco@blacksun.usfca.edu X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Dec 2004 03:15:10.0468 (UTC) FILETIME=[460D5C40:01C4EBC2] I would welcome suggestions of what are the most famous quotations from the writings or other remarks of Joyce Carol Oates. Fred Shapiro -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred R. Shapiro Editor Associate Librarian for Colllections and YALE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS Access and Lecturer in Legal Research Yale University Press, Yale Law School forthcoming e-mail: fred.shapiro@yale.edu http://quotationdictionary.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tone Clusters: The Joyce Carol Oates discussion group To send a message to the group, email jco@usfca.edu To subscribe, email majordomo@usfca.edu: subscribe jco To unsubscribe, email majordomo@usfca.edu: unsubscribe jco

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