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This is a collection of narrative reflections about man and woman relationships.
This is a collection of narrative reflections related to familial relationships.
This essay investigates ecological epiphany in short stories by Zadie Smith and Joyce Carol Oates, moments in which characters confront the link between their own consumption habits and planetary damage. These moments build on a longer... more
In the beginning of the seventies Joyce Carol Oates published a pseudo translation from the Portuguese of Portugal called The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories From the Portuguese (1975) which was composed during the writing of her novel... more
Joyce Carol Oates has been recognized as a postmodernist writer. In her literary texts, there is a great deal of difference and heterogeneous space in postmodern writing techniques. This paper explores Oates' relevant texts through... more
The object of this study is All the Bright Places (2015), a young adult fiction novel which tells a story about two teenagers and their problems related to their mental illness. The interesting topic which became the main discussion in... more
TOC & Introduction Excerpt, " Interpreting Gothic Presence Inside the Global War on Terror’s Novels, Comics, Movies, and Video Games Via Trauma Theory"
L'articolo si sofferma su un aspetto decisivo della complessa relazione tra cinema e letteratura, il rapporto tra scrittori e star, nello specifico tra Joyce Carol Oates e l'immagine pubblica di Marilyn Monroe e Marlon Brando.
The object of this study is All the Bright Places (2015), a young adult fiction novel which tells a story about two teenagers and their problems related to their mental illness. The interesting topic which became the main discussion in... more
Este artigo propõe uma leitura do ensaio literário Against Nature, da escritora estadunidense Joyce Carol Oates, que apresenta um discurso de resistência ao gênero literário conhecido por nature writing. Para compreendermos melhor o... more
The article proposes a sociological reading of the novel I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates. Though the book can be classified as an initiation novel, it also constitutes an accusation of the very procedure of initiation as forcing... more
En este trabajo nos ocupamos de la que puede ser considerada la única nouvelle de Roberto Fontanarrosa, uno de los autores emblemáticos del campo del humor argentino y latinoamericano, recientemente reivindicado por la crítica académica... more
Feminism, originating in late 19th century, is a cover term for a series of movements which seek to define, establish and defend equal rights for women. It focuses on the women's issues and their problems in the society and aims at... more
This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oates’s hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widow’s Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction. It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to... more
This research is an autoethnographic investigation of this distinctive national variety of fiction that is predominantly romantic in nature and offers insights into the fascinating reading culture of the country. Previous scholarship on... more
In her short story “The Possibility of Evil”, Shirley Jackson deconstructs the gendered play for power in 1950s America through the gothicization of prescriptive roles of femininity, one of which is the spinster. As the last descendant of... more
Women's domestic work is largely deemed to be a ‘labour of love’ and lacking any value outside the private family. This reflects an ‘ideology of domesticity’, whereby women's natural place is deemed to be in an imagined private... more
Oates works have been analyzed in the light of violent literature all around the world; however, they are not scruntizied on account of Žižek’s outstanding ideas. Carrying out extensive research, the researcher highlights the positive... more
The American feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan, in her canonical work Feminine Mystique (1963), vocalizes the discontentment and estrangement of mid-century American women. After World War II, many women with small children had... more
MONTEIRO, George, "Imaginary poets in a real world (an unpublished lecture, 1996)" (2016). Pessoa Plural―A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, No. 9, Spring, pp. 298-309. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University.... more
This paper focuses on the global political aspects of the "pro-life" vs "pro-choice" ideologies with an accent on the American social, political and religious living visa -vis their reflection, implication and repercussions on everyday... more
The two novels by Joyce Carol Oates analyzed in this paper, Black Water (1993) and Mudwoman (2012), were written in two different moments of the author's career. The first one is based on the infamous Chappaquiddick Incident (1969), where... more
Este artigo é uma tentativa de leitura do conto EDickinson RepliLuxe (2010), de Joyce Carol Oates, em busca de uma significação contemporânea em tempos de "queda do céu". No conto, a poeta Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) sobrevive em meados... more
This thesis analyzes the ways in which four American Gothic novels written by Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) and Joyce Carol Oates (1938) explore the perception of normality in American society. The chosen novels were published between the... more
Reseña de "Tan cerca En todo momento siempre" de Joyce Carol Oates, para Otra Parte Semanal