Oates, Joyce Carol (Vol. 6) - Oates, Joyce Carol 1938–
Oates, Joyce Carol 1938–
An American novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, and playwright now living in Canada, Ms Oates has achieved an almost neutral style, writing with controlled despair of love and losses, deaths and dyings of various sorts. In her latest critical work, New Heaven, New Earth, she contemplates the visionary writer's conflict with the metaphysical and the real. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
In the mood of our times [Joyce Carol Oates] is investigative. But she, like many good writers and many good periods in culture, goes back in order to go beyond. How is this? Well, for instance, she is able, when she wants to, to use recognizable plot strongly. Read "Demons" and see how plot can go from point to point in no orthodox way, but hold to the orthodox, constant factor…. And suspense—suspense that is managed in Miss Oates's own way, her own brand of psychological insinuation. How she...
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