Chapters and Other Extended Treatments in Books:
Allen, Mary Inez. "The Terrified Women of Joyce Carol Oates." The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major American Fiction of the Sixties. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1976. 133-159. Reprinted In: Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
Bevilacqua, Winifred Farrant. "'All of Detroit Is Melodrama': Joyce Carol Oates' them." La citta delle donne: Immaginario urbana e letteratura del Novecento. Ed. Oriana Palusci. Turin, Italy: Tirrenia, 1992. 12-139.
Bonds, Diane S. "Joyce Carol Oates: Testing the Lawrentian Hypothesis." D.H. Lawrence's Literary Inheritors. Ed. Keith Cushman and Dennis Jackson. New York: St. Martin's, 1991. 167-187.
Cologne-Brookes, Gavin. "Disclosing the Closure: Endings in the Recent Novels of Joyce Carol Oates." The Insular Dream: Obsession and Resistance. Ed. Kristiaan Versluys. Amsterdam, Netherlands: VU U P, 1995. 335-341.
Cornillon, Susan Koppelman. "The Fiction of Fiction." Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives. Ed. Susan Koppelman Cornillon. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State U P/Popular P, 1972. 117-124.
Cunningham, Frank R. "Joyce Carol Oates: The Enclosure of Identity in the Earlier Stories." American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space. Ed. Mickey Pearlman. Lexington, KY: U P of Kentucky, 1989. 9-28.
Daly, Brenda O. "The Central Nervous System of America: The Writer in/as the Crowd of Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland." Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic. Ed. Dale M. Bauer and Susan Jaret McKinstry. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1991. 155-180.
---. "'How Do We (Not) Become These People Who Victimize Us?': Anxious Authorship in the Early Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates." Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Ed. Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1993. 235-252.
---. "Misogynist Reviewers: Tiny Gunmen Take Shots at That Siren, Joyce Carol Oates." Misogyny in Literature. Ed. Katherine Ackley. New York: Garland, 1992. 265-287.
---. "My Friend, Joyce Carol Oates." The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism. Ed. Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Frances Murphy Zauhar. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1993. 163-173.
---. "Where Is She Going, Where Are We Going, at Century's End? The Girl as Site of Cultural Conflict in Joyce Carol Oates's 'The Model.'" The Girl: Construction of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women. Ed. Ruth O. Saxton. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 1-19.
Dorfel, Hanspeter. "Images of Germany and the Germans in Some of Joyce Carol Oates' Short Stories." Germany and German Thought in American Literature and Cultural Criticism. Ed. Peter Freese. Essen, Germany: Blaue Eule, 1990. 267-284.
Engler, Bernd. "History as Fairytale: Appropriations of European History in Joyce Carol Oates's 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'" Re-Visioning the Past: Historical Self-Reflexivity in American Short Fiction. Ed. Bernd Engler. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher, 1998. 267-283.
Floyd, Kevin. "Deconstructing Masochism in Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School and Joyce Carol Oates's You Must Remember This." Critical Studies on the Feminist Subject. Ed. Giovanna Covi. Trento, Italy: Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Stroiche, Universita degli Studi di Trento, 1997. 57-77.
Friedman, Melvin J., and Ben Siegel, ed. Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American Novel since the 1960s. U of Delaware P, 1995.
Goetsch, Paul. "Joyce Carol Oates, 'How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again.'" The Vision of This Land: Studies of Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee masters, and Carl Sandburg. Ed. John E. Hallwas and Dennis J. Reader. Macomb, IL: Western Illinois U P, 1976. 301-313. Also Published In: Die amerikanische Short Story der Gegenwart: Interpretationen. Ed. Peter Freese. Berlin: Schmidt, 1976. 301-313.
Karl, Frederick R. American Fictions 1940-1980. New York: Harper, 1983. 298-302, 420-421, 546-49.
Kazin, Alfred. "Cassandras: Porter to Oates." Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. Boston: Little, 1973. 198-205. Reprinted In: Wagner, Linda M., ed. Critical Essays on Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979. 157-160.
Loeb, Monica. "Hieros Gamos, Analysis of a Short Story by Joyce Carol Oates." Vitterhetsnojen, Festschrift for Magnus von Paten. Umea: Umea Universitet, 1980. 289-294.
Madden, David. "The Violent World of Joyce Carol Oates." Short Fiction 4(Summer 1967): 369-373. Reprinted In: Wagner, Linda W. Critical Essays on Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979. 6-10; Madden, David. The Poetic Image in Six Genres. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois U P, 1969. 26-46.
Manske, Eva. "The Nightmare of Reality: Gothic Fantasies and Psychological Realism in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates." Neo_realism in Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Kristiann Versluys. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 1992. 131-143.
Mickelson, Anne Z. "Sexual Love in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates." Reaching Out: Sensitivity and Order in Recent American Fiction by Women. Ed. Anne Z. Mickelson. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1979. 15-34.
Napierkowski, Marie Rose, and Deborah A. Stanley, eds. "Joyce Carol Oates: them." Novels for Students. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2000.
Nodelman, Perry. "The Sense of Unending: Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur as an Experiment in Feminine Storytelling." Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction. Ed. Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U P, 1989. 250-264.
Peden, William. The American Short Story: Continuity and Change 1940-1975. Boston: Houghton, 1975. 88-97.
Pinsker, Sanford. "Isaac Bashevis Singer and Joyce Carol Oates: Some Versions of Gothic." Between Two Worlds: The American Novel of the 1960's. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1980. 115-127. Reprinted From: Southern Review 9(Autumn 1973): 895-908.
Rozga, Margaret. "Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters: Or, a Woman's Place in Her Own Fiction." American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Julie Brown. New York: Garland, 1995. 281-294.
Saalmann, Dieter. "A Deconstructive Approach to the Berlin Wall: Joyce Carol Oates's 'Berlin Stories.'" The Berlin Wall: Representations and Perspectives. Ed. Ernst Schurer, Manfred Keune, and Philip Jenkins. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. 170-180.
Showalter, Elaine. "Joyce Carol Oates's 'The Dead' and Feminist Criticism." Faith of a (Woman) Writer. Ed. Alice Kessler-Harris and William McBrien. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. 13-19.
Soricelli, Rhonda L., and David H. Flood. "(Un)Professional Relationships in the Gendered Maze of Medicine." Teaching Literature and Medicine. Ed. Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and Marilyn Chandler McEntyre. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000. 344-352.
Spengnether, Madelon. "(M)other Eve: Some Revisions of the Fall in Fiction by Contemporary Women Writers." Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Ed. Richard Feldstein and Judith Roof. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U P, 1989. 298-322.
Steiner, Dorothea. "'Daisy": Woman as Oatesian Prototype and Persona." Die englische und amerikanische Kurzgeschichte. Ed. Hans Bungert. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
Stevick, Philip. "Remembering, Knowing, and Telling in Joyce Carol Oates." The Process of Fiction. Ed. Barbara McKenzie. New York: Harcourt, 1974. 490-499.
Summer, Rebecca. "Smoothing Out the Rough Spots: The Film Adaptation of 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" Vision/Revision: Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film. Ed. Barbara Tepa Lupack. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1996. 85-100.
Trachtenberg, Stanley. "Desire, Hypocrisy, and Ambition in Academe: Joyce Carol Oates's 'The Hungry Ghosts.'" The American Writer and the University. Ed. Ben Siegel. Newark, DE: U of elaware P, 1989. 39-53.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. "Panoramic, Unpredictable, and Human: Joyce Carol Oates's Recent Novels." Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American Novel since the 1960s. Ed. Melvin J. Friedman and Ben Siegel. Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 1995. 196-209.
Worthington-Smith, Hammett. "Religious Dimensions in because It Is Bitter, and because It Is My Heart." Proceedings: Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Ed. Joan F. Hallisey and Mary-Anne Vetterling. Weston, MA: Regis College, 1996. 133-137.
Zviniatskovsky, Vladimir. "Two Ladies with Two Dogs and Two Gentlemen: Joyce Carol Oates and Chekhov." Chekhov Then and Now: The Reception of Chekhov in World Culture. Ed. J. Douglas Clayton. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. 125-136.
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Krementz, Jill. The Writer's Desk.
The Reference Guide to Short Fiction.
Showalter, Elaine. Sister's Choice. 1991.