Re: JCO: Oates Quotations

From "Fury and Fine Lines,"

"The poet William Carlos Williams said it most succinctly and
provocatively: 'The perfect man of action is the suicide.'"

Randy

On Dec 31, 2004, at 11:16 AM, ted wrote:

> From some non-fiction writing- anyone know where?
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> "The suicide is the ultimate man of action."
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Re: JCO: Oates Quotations

From some non-fiction writing- anyone know where?

"The suicide is the ultimate man of action."


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JCO: Dark Eyes on America

DARK EYES ON AMERICA: THE NOVELS OF JOYCE CAROL OATES is soon to be released (Louisiana State UP, 2005)? 

Here is the editorial review from Amazon:


Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Gavin Cologne-Brookes is the author of The Novels of William Styron: From Harmony to History and coeditor of Writing and America. Educated in his native Britain and in the United States, he is an associate professor of English and creative studies at Bath Spa University in England.

Product Description:
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 since her first work appeared in the 1960s, 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 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.
Drawing on the intellectual tradition of American Pragmatism, Cologne-Brookes 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 undertook extensive research for his study, including interviewing and corresponding with Oates. His close textual study of her novels and abundant references to her essays, stories, poetry, plays and letters result in a book that emphasizes Oates’s clear-eyed analysis of human behavior, underscores her remarkable mastery of her craft, and 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.

RE: JCO: RE: "The Census Taker"

Annie,

 

You are welcome. We discussed that story on this list ... during the summer, I think. That's why I remembered it so readily.

 

Kim

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Wow, that was fast.  Thank you!

Annie

Re: JCO: RE: "The Census Taker"

Wow, that was fast.  Thank you!

Annie

JCO: "The Census Taker"

Can anyone point me to the collection this story appears in?

Anne D'Arcy, Ph.D.
Solano College
Suisun, Ca.

JCO: RE: "The Census Taker"

By the North Gate

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Subject: JCO: "The Census Taker"

Can anyone point me to the collection this story appears in?

Anne D'Arcy, Ph.D.
Solano College
Suisun, Ca.