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137 - Joyce Carol Oates: Craft in Fiction and Poetry

137 - Joyce Carol Oates: Craft in Fiction and Poetry

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Joyce Carol Oates is the Rogers S. Berlind ’52 Professor Emerita
in the Humanities at Princeton University with the Program in
Creative Writing. She is among the most widely-recognized and
respected writers of our time, and has written in a wide variety
of media and genres, from poetry and fiction in the former
category to horror and Gothic in the latter. Her work has also
been adapted into various other media, from plays to film. Joyce
is the recipient of two O. Henry Awards and the National Book
Award, among many others. In this conversation, Robinson and
Joyce talk about various dimensions of fiction and poetry. Their
discussion largely centers on technique and form, and touches on
the work of James Joyce, Stephen Crane, Vladimir Nabokov, and
Edgar Allan Poe, in addition to Joyce’s own novels and short
stories.

Errata: In the section marked “Edgar Allan Poe and James Joyce”,
Joyce says “Blazes Boylan” when she intends to refer to Buck
Mulligan.

Joyce’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates

Joyce’s Substack: https://joycecaroloates.substack.com

OUTLINE

00:00 In This Episode…

00:55 Introduction

05:39 On Stephen Crane and The Bitter Heart

31:22 Literature as a Distillation of Life

42:53 Repetition and other Techniques

53:07 Edgar Allan Poe and James Joyce

01:08:14 Stephen Crane’s Many Red Devils

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
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