A ‘Fourth Way’ to Tell the Story - Couverture rigide

Miceli

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3631867921 ISBN 13 : 9783631867921

Editeur : Peter Lang, 2021

Synopsis

This study is an analysis of the novels Black Water (1992), Blonde (2000), and My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates. Based on real-life characters (Mary Jo Kopechne, Marilyn Monroe, JonBenét Ramsey), these works blend fact and fiction, historical and poetic truth, and create a new way to recount facts that allow the writer to give a new voice to people who cannot speak for themselves anymore. The present book addresses the stories behind the novels, their genre and stylistic features, but is also an exploration of several aspects of American culture and society and their issues connected to consumerism, the cult of beauty and celebrity, and how they affect American women's lives and power relations with men.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Miceli holds a PhD in Euro-American Studies from Roma Tre University (Italy) and she is Assistant Professor at the University of Gdañsk (Poland) where she teaches American Studies subjects. She specializes in the relationship between fact and fiction in the contemporary American novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631867921
• ISBN 13: 9783631867921
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne