Love Eclipsed: Joyce Carol Oates's Faustian Moral Vision

By Nancy Ann Watanabe

This book demonstrates the greatness of Joyce Carol Oates, who is a nominee for a Nobel Award in Literature. Nancy Watanabe discusses Oates's previously undiscovered roots in the literatures of Europe and Asia. Watanabe's thought-provoking analyses are enhanced by a cinematically inspired principle of organization that reflects Oates's own stratagems. In a massive build-up of metaphorical links between a Copernican world of nature and actions taken by ordinary people in the course of their daily living, Oates portrays America as a land of justice that is always a step behind a Faustian desire for freedom to pursue material desires. Oates documents an eclipsing of a divinely inspired Christian love by Faustian quest. Through this study, readers will gain a broader perspective and a more accurate assessment of Oates's global significance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761809341
• ISBN13: 9780761809340
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"