Table of Contents:
  • By the north gate / James McConkey
  • Fatal fascinations / Jan Hamilton
  • Upon the sweeping flood / David Madden
  • Versions of rural America / Richard Clark Sterne
  • What is reality? / Granville Hicks
  • Mirage-seekers / John L'Heureux
  • Necessity in art of a reflective intelligence / Benjamin DeMott
  • Vivid and dazzling / Calvin Bedient
  • Terror of love / Charles Lam Markmann
  • Everyday monsters / Peter S. Prescott
  • Only prairie dog mounds / Ronald D. Feo
  • Two major novelists all by herself / Sara Sanborn
  • Hungry ghosts / John Alfred Avant
  • Assassins / Anonymous
  • Possessive material / Irving Malin
  • Night-side / Robert Phillips
  • Hungry for God / Victoria Glendinning
  • Only control : the novels of Joyce Carol Oates / Robert H. Fossum
  • The language of tragedy and violence / Mary Kathryn Grant
  • Artificial demon : Joyce Carol Oates and the dimensions of the real / Walter Sullivan
  • Don't you know who I am? The grotesque in Oates's Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce M. Wegs
  • Suburban molesters : Joyce Carol Oates' Expensive people / Sanford Pinsker
  • Journey from the 'I' to the 'eye' : wonderland
  • Paedomorphic art : Joyce Carol Oates' Childwold / Eileen T. Bender
  • Poetry of Joyce Carol Oates / Peter Stevens
  • Unliberated women in Joyce Carol Oates's fiction / Joanne V. Creighton
  • [On Joyce Carol Oates] / Alfred Kazin
  • Through obsession to transcendence : the Lawrentian mode of Oates's recent fiction / G.F. Waller.