New York: The Vanguard Press, 1972. — 259 p. Introduction: Forms of Tragic Literature The Tragedy of Existence: Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida The Tragedy of Imagination: Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” Melville and the Tragedy of Nihilism Tragic and Comic Visions in The Brothers Karamazov Chekhov and the Theater of the Absurd Yeats: Violence, Tragedy, Mutability...
Modern Library, 2002. eISBN: 978-0-307-52575-8. — 394 p. Joyce Carol Oates is one of America's most versatile and prolific contemporary writers. Her second novel, A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), is the opening volume in a trilogy about different socioeconomic groups in America that incorporates Expensive People (1968) and them (1969), for which she won the National Book...
PerfectBound — HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 0-06-052215-1. — 283 p. Written in the wake of some highly publicized school shootings, Big Mouth & Ugly Girl takes a look at the shock waves that emanate from an overheard comment muttered in sarcasm, and the overzealous reaction of the school and surrounding community that follows. High school junior Matt Donaghy is...
Modern Library, 2006. eISBN: 978-0-307-49536-5. — 315 p. Joyce Carol Oates is one of America's most versatile and prolific contemporary writers. Oates's first novel, With Shuddering Fall (1964), the story of a destructive romance between a teenage girl and a thirty-year-old race car driver, foreshadowed her preoccupation with violence and darkness. Expensive People , originally...
New York: Harper Collins, 2003. – 111 p. Language: English. "Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed...
Short stories HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 305 p. The Collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to...
New York: HarperCollins, 2010. Language: English. Oates's latest collection explores certain favorite Oatesian themes, primary among them violence, loss, and privilege. Three of the stories feature white, upper-class, educated widows whose sheltered married lives have left them unprepared for life alone. In «Pumpkin-Head» and «Sourland», the widows-Hadley in the first story,...
New York: Ecco Press, 2007. – 269 p. Language: English. In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in...
PerfectBound — HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 0-06-055866-0. — 324 p. Joyce Carol Oates is one of the world's most respected living novelists. The Tattooed Girl brings us a tale of dark passions, prejudice, and the strange forms that love can take. A celebrated but reclusive author, young but in failing health, Joshua Seigl reluctantly realizes that he can no longer live...
Harper Collins Publisher, 2008. Collection of short stories about the last days of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway. Fiction.
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