Joyce Carol Oates
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals & Trade Publications|Web Sites
Scope: Joyce Carol Oates was a prolific writer of fiction, nonfiction, poems, plays, novels, and stories. Readers are drawn to her writings because she has the ability to mix everyday events with terror. She is also known for the fact that she often incorporated social conditions of her generation into her literary works. Oates books Unholy Loves and Expensive People earned her a National Book Award nomination and Notable Book of 1979.
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CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Joyce Carol Oatess works are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under Oates, Joyce Carol, and under individual titles, i. e. Them.
Books written by and about Joyce Carol Oates have the call number(s):
PN 6120.2
PN 3565.A8
PS 3529.A78
PS 3565.A8
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
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Halpern, Daniel. Writers on Artists. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
REF PS 374.S5C57 2000 The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
REF Z 1231.F4 R57 Contemporary Fiction in America and England, 1950-1970
REF PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction Vol.5
REF PS 2l.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol.2 American Novelists since World War II
REF PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th Century Writers Vol.3
REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, &
TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list
of full text journals available through our databases
in:
WEB
SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
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Updated
08/20/2007
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