By Monica Loeb
A chain of intertextual brief tales by way of Joyce Carol Oates, released in 1972, constitutes the subject-matter of the current paintings. Having entered into ‘literary marriages’ with cherished masters, akin to Kafka, Joyce, Thoreau, Flaubert, James and Chekhov, Oates has ‘re-imagined’ their vintage masterpieces.
This learn goals at checking out no matter if Oates is still ‘faithful’ to the unique types. What components along with the titles are retained, or extra? Why does a tender American lady author adopt a discussion with deceased authors and their texts? Why the fast tale style? what's Oates’s courting to intertextuality, literary culture, or the very aesthetics of her personal art?
Grounded in theories of intertextuality, comparative analyses convey that Oates continues to be ‘faithful’ in a few of her non secular unions, whereas committing ‘infidelities’ in others. for a lady author within the Nineteen Seventies transgression was once a need for survival; those tales hence belong to the revisionary circulation. whereas assimilating and engendering a strongly Eurocentred male literary culture, Oates manages to liberate power from the unique tales reworking them into expressions of her personal targeted literary voice.
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