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Woman Writer Paperback – April 28, 1989
- Print length401 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherE. P. Dutton
- Publication dateApril 28, 1989
- Dimensions5.25 x 1 x 7.75 inches
- ISBN-100525484949
- ISBN-13978-0525484943
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- Publisher : E. P. Dutton; First Paperback Edition (April 28, 1989)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 401 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0525484949
- ISBN-13 : 978-0525484943
- Item Weight : 1.67 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.25 x 1 x 7.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,150,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #25,112 in Literary Criticism & Theory
- #35,447 in Literary Movements & Periods
- #60,894 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction
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About the author
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
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Oates is, as anyone who has followed her career knows, passionately committed to writing and fascinated by all it permutations. Her first chapters speak to the mystery of precisely how art may be said to "begin" and the equally mysterious relationship of the artist to his art. "Does the Writer Exist?" is the title of one chapter and she shows that the answer is not nearly so obvious as it seems.
"Wonderlands" is the chapter that starts off her second section, recalling the title of one of her most admired novels and the Lewis Carroll original that was such a spur to her childhood imagination. This section gives Oates' interpretations of several classics. In "Jane Eyre: An Introduction" Oates argues against the usual assumption of Bronte scholars that Rochester's crippling and blinding are a symbolic castration for "he is as masculine as ever." Her insights into the image of the double in Stevenson's “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and Shelley's “Frankenstein” are thought-provoking, the first a monster "caged in our flesh", the second "the nightmare that is deliberately created by man's ingenuity (italics in the original)".
Oates' fascination with boxing makes her chapters on that sport lovingly detailed and as revealing of their author as their violent subject. She regards boxing as "an art in which the human body itself is the instrument" and believes that when a man like Mike Tyson becomes a champion he is "a savior, of sorts, covered in sweat and ready for war."
After the "prefaces" to five of her novels, Oates closes with a long meditation on pseudonyms and their relation to the "real" self. It is only the latest addition to the theme of self and doublehood which has enriched so much of Oates' fictions as well as so many of these essays.