Literary Marriages: A Study of Intertextuality in a Series of Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates - Couverture souple

Loeb, Monica

 
9783906768090: Literary Marriages: A Study of Intertextuality in a Series of Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
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ISBN 10 : 3906768090 ISBN 13 : 9783906768090
Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2001

Synopsis

A series of intertextual short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, published in 1972, constitutes the subject-matter of the present work. Having entered into ‘literary marriages' with beloved masters, such as Kafka, Joyce, Thoreau, Flaubert, James and Chekhov, Oates has ‘re-imagined' their classic masterpieces. This study aims at finding out whether Oates remains ‘faithful' to the original versions. What elements besides the titles are retained, or added ? Why does a young American woman writer undertake a dialogue with deceased authors and their texts ? Why the short story genre ? What is Oates's relationship to intertextuality, literary tradition, or the very aesthetics of her own art ? Grounded in theories of intertextuality, comparative analyses show that Oates remains ‘faithful' in some of her spiritual unions, while committing ‘infidelities' in others. For a woman writer in the 1970s transgression was a necessity for survival ; these stories thus belong to the revisionary movement. While assimilating and engendering a strongly Eurocentred male literary tradition, Oates manages to unlock energy from the original stories transforming them into expressions of her very own distinct literary voice.

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À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Educated at Barnard College, Columbia University, Monica Loeb received a Ph.D. from Umeå University. She is currently Assistant Professor of English at Västerås University College in Sweden and is specializing in contemporary North American literature.

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Éditeur
Verlag Peter Lang
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3906768090
ISBN 13 
9783906768090
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
198
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9780820456423: Literary Marriages: A Study of Intertextuality in a Series of Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

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ISBN 10 :  082045642X ISBN 13 :  9780820456423
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2001
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