WOMAN WRITER - Occasions and Opportunities by Oates, Joyce Carol - 1988

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1988. (xiii) 402 pp. Quarter-bound in burgundy cloth on turquoise boards; lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This collection contains: DOES THE WRITER EXIST: Beginnings; Woman Writer: Theory and Practice; The Art of Self-Criticism; The Dream of the Sacred Text; Does the Writer Exist; Literature as Pleasure Pleasure as Literature; Against Nature. WONDERLANDS: Wonderlands; Frankenstein's Fallen Angel; Jane Eyre: An Introduction; Moby Dick: An American Book of Wonders; Looking for Thoreau; Soul at the White Heat; The Romance of Emily Dickinson's Poetry; Pleasure Duty Redemption Then and Now: Susan Warner's Diana; Jekyll/Hyde; Kafka as Storyteller. IN THE RING: Mike Tyson; Blood Neon and Failure in the Desert; Tyson/Biggs: Postscript. A MISCELLANY: Annie Johnson: A Lost New England Artist; Life Vigor Fire: The Watercolors of Winslow Homer; George Bellows: The Boxing Paintings; The Hemingway Mystique; Food as Poetry; Where Are You Going Where Have You Been and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film; State-of-the-Art Car: The Ferrari Testarossa; Budapest Journal: May 1980; Visions of Detroit; Meeting the Gorbachevs. SELVES AND PSEUDONYMOUS SELVES: Five Prefaces: Them; Bellefleur; Mysteries of Winterburn; Marya: A Life; You Must Remember This; and Pseudonymous Selves.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book.