Dark Eyes on America(English, Paperback, Cologne-Brookes Gavin)

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Dark Eyes on America(English, Paperback, Cologne-Brookes Gavin) is written by Cologne-Brookes Gavin and published by Louisiana State University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807135305 (ISBN 10) and 9780807135303 (ISBN 13).

Joyce Carol Oates is America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters. In Dark Eyes on America, Gavin Cologne-Brookes illuminates the vision of this remarkable master of her craft, finding evidence in her novels of an evolving consciousness that ultimately forgoes abstract introspection in favor of a more practical approach to art as a tool for understanding both personal and social challenges. With her clear-eyed perception of human behavior, Oates has for decades offered unhesitating explorations of genre, topic, and style- making her an inevitable if somewhat elusive subject for critical assessment. Cologne-Brookes's conversations and correspondence with Oates, his close textual study of her novels, and abundant references to her essays, stories, poetry, and plays result in a work that critically synthesizes the layers of her writing. This comprehensive yet accessible study offers an essential analysis of one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.