Critical Essays on Joyce Carol Oates

by Linda Wagner-Martin (Editor)

Criticism and reviews of Joyce Carol Oates' novels, such as Them, Wonderland, and The Assassins, are collected along with analyses of her fiction techniques and poetry

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Linda Wagner-Martin is the Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Over a teaching career spanning 53 years, she taught at Wayne State University, Michigan State University, and UNC, while authoring and editing more than 55 books. Her work includes biographies of major literary figures such as Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, and Maya Angelou, along with studies like A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present and The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism. After retiring in 2011, she continued publishing extensively. Wagner-Martin’s contributions have earned her prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Service to American Literature, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Radcliffe Institute. She holds BA, BS, MA, and PhD degrees from Bowling Green State University, where she graduated magna cum laude with majors in English and minors in American History.

Reviews

[Alison]

It's unfair to call this "unfinished" since I barely gave it a chance. I took it to a dr's appointment where I had a lot of sitting around and waiting between some tests, but I'd had to fast and I just couldn't concentrate. I never picked it back up to try it again.