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title	:	Lavish Self-divisions : The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates
author	:	Daly, Brenda O.
publisher	:	University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin	:	0878058850
print isbn13	:	9780878058853
ebook isbn13	:	9780585179933
language	:	English
subject	Oates, Joyce Carol,--1938- --Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century, Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism, Self in literature, Authorship.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	PS3565.A8Z635 1996eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	Oates, Joyce Carol,--1938- --Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century, Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism, Self in literature, Authorship.

Page iii Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates Brenda Daly University Press of Mississippi Jackson

Page iv Copyright 1996 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 99 98 97 96 4 3 2 1 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Daly, Brenda O., 1955 Lavish self-divisions: the novels of Joyce Carol Oates / Brenda Daly. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-885-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Criticism and interpretation. 2. Women and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. Self in literature. 4. Authorship. I. Title. PS3565.A8Z635 1996 813.53dc20 96- 11684 CIP British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available

Page v CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Introduction Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates ix Part I. Anxious Authorship in the 1960s: Daughters Leaving Home 3 1. Not Strictly Parallel: The Sacrificial Plots of Daughters and Sons in With Shuddering Fall 9 2. Yeats's Daughter: Images of "Leda and the Swan" in the Trilogy of the 1960s 22 3. "The Central Nervous System of America": The Writer in/as the Crowd in Wonderland 48 Part 2. Dialogic Authorship in the 1970s: Marriages and Infidelities 69 4. Marriage as Novel: Beyond the Conventions of Romance and Law in Do with Me What You Will 77 5. Wedding a (Woman) Writer's Voices: Dis-membering the "I" in The Assassins, Re-membering "Us" in Childwold 91 6. Self-Narrating Woman: Marriage as Emancipatory Metaphor in Unholy Loves 110 Part 3. Communal Authorship in the 1980s: The (M)other in Us 125 7. Daughters of the American Revolution: "Idiosyncratic" Narrators in Three Postmodern Novels 136

Page vi 8. Porous Boundaries: Daughters, Families, and the Body Politic in Realistic Novels of the 1980s 179 9. How Does "I" Speak for "We"?: Violence and Representation in Foxfire, Confessions of a Girl Gang 205 Conclusion Where Has Joyce Carol Oates Been, Where Is She Going? 223 Notes 229 Works Cited 249 Index 265

Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My friends and colleaguesMaureen Reddy at Rhode Island College, Marie Lathers and Marty Graham at Iowa State University, and Laurin Porter at the University of Texas at Arlingtonhave supported my work on Oates for many years, sometimes reading drafts of chapters, sometimes inviting me to present at conferences. I am grateful for their love and support. In addition, I am thankful to the following editors who, by publishing my work on Oates, sustained my dream of completing this book: Elaine Showalter, Barbara Lounsberry, Michael J. O'Shea, Dale Bauer and Susan Jaret McKinstry, S. E. Sweeney and Carol J. Singley, Olivia Frey and Diane Freedman, Katherine Ackley, Ray Browne, and Nancy Kobrin. My thanks also to the many conference chairs who have invited me to present on Oates. This book bears traces of all these collaborations. Because I began reading the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates more than twenty years ago, I sometimes think of myself as a fictionan "I"created by JCO. Had I not yearned to write about Oates's fiction, I might not have applied for doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota. I completed my studies with the help of Chester Anderson who, as my dissertation director, provided valuable criticism and support. Thanks to feminists at the University of MinnesotaMadelon Sprengnether, Shirley Nelson Garner, and Toni McNaronI became a much stronger reader, a feminist reader. I also thank the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota which appointed me a Fellow in 1993, providing me with library privileges while I was on leave and working on this book.

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