Title: Dreaming America : obsession and transcendence in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates /
Authors: Waller, Gary F. 1945-
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Oates, Joyce Carol, Criticism and interpretation.; Psychological fiction, American History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature.; America In literature.
Contents: The obsessive vision -- The phantasmagoria of American personality -- Forms of obsession: Oates's fictional stance -- With Shuddering Fall, A Garden of Earthly Delights -- Expensive People, Them -- Wonderland, Do with Me What You Will -- The Assassins: a Book of Hours, Childwold.