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Table of contents
RESUME EN FRANÇAIS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
0.1 Overview of Critical Assessment of Oates’s Work
0.1.1 Oates Criticism: The First Wave (1978-1980)
0.1.2 Second Wave of Oates Criticism: The Middle Years (1987-1998)
0.1.3 Oates Criticism in the Twenty-First Century
0.2 Crime and Maturity
0.2.1 Choosing a Corpus
0.2.2 Content Outline
PART ONE THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE
Introduction: The Mystery of Human Emotions
1.0.1. Author on an Interminable Quest
Chapter I The Falls: The Case of the Well-Meaning Family
1.1.1. Questing Self, Questioning Characters
1.1.1.1. The Fossil-Seeker and the Tight-Rope Walker: Anachronistic Characters
1.1.1.2. The Green-Eyed Woman: Sheer Will Against the Pull of Time
1.1.1.3. Hope For the Next Generation: EROSION TIME . . .
1.1.2. Relationships: Problem or Solution?
1.1.2.1. Husbands and Wives
1.1.2.2. Parents and Children
1.1.2.3. Children and Others
1.1.3. Range of Human Experience: Dreams and Psychological Reality
1.1.3.1. From Fairy Tale to Reality
1.1.3.2. Visions, Myths, Legends
1.1.3.3. Relativity of Evil
Chapter II The Tattooed Girl: The Case of the Girl No One Knew
1.2.1. Phantasmagoria of Personality
1.2.1.1. At the Point of Metamorphosis
1.2.1.2. Eyes That Do Not See
1.2.2. The “Night Side” of Our Lives
1.2.3. Change and Redemption
Chapter III Beasts: The Case of the Girl Who Got What She Wanted
1.3.1. Unreliable Eye/I
1.3.2. Problematic Nature of Desire
1.3.3. Power of Life and Death
1.3.3.1. Fire Imagery
Rape: A Love Story: The Bewildering Case of the Missing Meaning
1.4.1. Why? The Unanswerable Question
1.4.2. Why? The Difficulty of Being Believed
1.4.2.1. Is Justice Achieved?
1.4.3. The Question of Love
PART TWO TRANSCRIBING THE ENIGMATIC
Chapter V “Phrases of Silence”: Textual Devices
2.5.1. The Disorienting Catalyst
2.5.2. Italics and Inner Thoughts
2.5.3. Repetition
2.5.4. Dashes and Ellipses
Chapter VI “Links” Between “Events”: The Mysteries of Interconnectivity
2.6.1. Inferring Meaning, or Establishing “Links”
2.6.2. Jumbled Narrative Structure
2.6.2.1. Absent Signposting
2.6.2.2. Flashbacks
2.6.3. Communal Narration
Chapter VII Liminal States; Questions of Identity: Caught Between Haunting Past and Unknowable Future
2.7.1. Spectrality
2.7.2. Spectre and Hantise
2.7.3. Borderline States
2.7.4. “Phantoms”
2.7.5. The Fantastic: A Borderline State
2.7.6. Shadows
PART THREE THE MYSTERIES OF PLOT
Chapter VIII Todorov’s Typology as Template: Tool for Initial Analysis of Oates Corpus
3.8.1. Classic Detective Story
3.8.1.1. Structure: Two Competing, Yet Complementary, Story Lines
3.8.1.2. Rape: A Love Story and The Falls
3.8.2. Thriller
3.8.2.1. Structure: One Story Line, Different Reader Interest
3.8.2.2. Beasts and The Tattooed Girl
3.8.2.3. The Mystery Element
3.8.3. Themes/Discourse
3.8.3.1. Justice
3.8.3.2. Deadline: Crippling Effects of Lack of Knowledge
3.8.3.3. Delicious Rottenness
3.8.3.4. Nemesis
3.8.3.5. Absence of Supernatural
3.8.4. Suspense Story
Chapter IX Detection, Detecting and Detectives
3.9.1. Social Function of Detective Fiction
3.9.2. Oates’s Detectives: Reversing Traditional Roles
3.9.2.1. Hard-Boiled Seeker of Justice
3.9.2.2. Unreliable, Purely Selfish Motives
3.9.2.3. Amateurs, Unwittingly Forced Into Role
3.9.2.4. Absent
Chapter X Violence and Identity
3.10.1. Palmer’s Hero and Conspiracy
3.10.1.1. Legitimacy of Violence
3.10.1.2. Distinctiveness of Tone
3.10.1.3. Opacity of Point of View
3.10.2. Symons’ Theory of Sensational Literature
3.10.2.1. Convey Psychological Truths, Investigate Human Personality
3.10.3. Intimate Relationship to Violence
Chapter XI Rewriting Detective Fiction: Towards an Understanding of Oates’s Enigmatic Hybrid
3.11.1. Thriller as Parody of Classic Detective Fiction
3.11.2. Refunctioning: Margaret Rose’s Concept of Parody
3.11.3. Return to Roots: Oates and Poe
3.11.4. An Inherently Malleable Genre
Conclusion: An Empire of Enigma
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