Love Eclipsed

Joyce Carol Oates's Faustian Moral Vision

Nancy Ann Watanabe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

1997
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-0934-0 (ISBN)

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This book demonstrates the greatness of Joyce Carol Oates, who is a nominee for a Nobel Award in Literature. Nancy Watanabe discusses Oates's previously undiscovered roots in the literatures of Europe and Asia. Watanabe's thought-provoking analyses are enhanced by a cinematically inspired principle of organization that reflects Oates's own stratagems. In a massive build-up of metaphorical links between a Copernican world of nature and actions taken by ordinary people in the course of their daily living, Oates portrays America as a land of justice that is always a step behind a Faustian desire for freedom to pursue material desires. Oates documents an eclipsing of a divinely inspired Christian love by Faustian quest. Through this study, readers will gain a broader perspective and a more accurate assessment of Oates's global significance.

Nancy Ann Watanabe is the author ofBeloved Image: The Drama of W.B. Yeats 1865-1939 also published by University Press of America, which was chosen for the RenÈ Wellek Critical Collection as an essential work in the History of Criticism and Literary Theory. She has taught English, French, and Comparative Literature at the University of Oklahoma, University of Alaska, Boise State University, Indiana University, and University of Washington. A recipient of Fulbright and NEH faculty fellowship awards, she has lectured in Pennsylvania, New York, and Texas.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.2.1998
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 234 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7618-0934-1 / 0761809341
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-0934-0 / 9780761809340
Zustand	Neuware