Heat and Other Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Time of Work: The 1960’s through the 1980’s
- Setting: The United States and Canada
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, 1980’s, Rape, Victims, Violence, Human behavior
- Locales: United States, Canada
Since its beginnings with the gothic encounters of Edgar Allan Poe, the American short story has more often focused on borderline human experiences than on the center of everyday life. Short fiction has always zeroed in on disruptions of the everyday, when something happens that challenges the routine and thus upsets the comfortable value system derived from the ordinary. Whether the disruption is the result of an external force, such as the appearance of a mysterious stranger, or caused by an internal hallucination so vivid and powerful it seems external and real, in the twentieth...
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