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- W119766013 abstract "To say that Joyce Carol Oates is the best woman novelist in America today is like saying that Jane Austen was the best woman novelist in England in 1815. For Oates may be the finest American novelist, man or woman, since Faulkner and surely the best to appear in the past decade. She is at least the most prolific, having brought out six novels,1 four col? lections of stories, three volumes of poetry, and a book of critical essays since 1964. Oates differs from many of her less productive contempo? raries in a more important sense, however. Unlike Philip Roth, say, she has not turned to parody or black comedy. Unlike a Thomas Pynchon or Donald Barthelme, she has not violated the conventional structures of language. Nor has she so lost faith in the power of realistic narrative that she feels compelled to undergird it with the mythical dimensions by which some of our postmodern novelists (Styron, Updike, the early Malamud) give significance to the commonplace. Although her fiction sometimes fails to capture the peculiar social texture of a given time and place, it brilliantly illumines the emotional lives of her characters, be they migrant workers or wealthy farmers, suburban executives or lower class urban ites, and evokes an overwhelming sense of those psychological pressures in American life which produce our obsessions and frustrations, our dreams of love and power, our struggles to understand the world and ourselves. Oates has said that art must deal consciously with emotions that are . . . 'unimagined,' not yet rendered into coherent images by most people, and hence dangerous.2 If all human beings are artists, wheth? er consciously or unconsciously, Oates's characters are notably unsuc? cessful artists. Their imaginations stunted or impoverished by circum? stances, they experience few epiphanies and few visions beyond those induced by American advertising. Ignorant of the causes of their feelings and actions, they exist in a state of bewilderment, a waking dream punc" @default.
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- W119766013 title "ONLY CONTROL: THE NOVELS OF JOYCE CAROL OATES" @default.
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