Collections of Critical Essays:
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
Allen, Mary Inez. "The Terrified Women of Joyce Carol Oates." 61-82. Reprinted From: 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.
Bedient, Calvin. "Sleeping Beauty and the Love like Hatred." 19-22. Reprinted From: New York Times Book Review 14 Oct. 1973: 1, 18.
Bender, Eileen T. "Autonomy and Influence: Joyce Carol Oates's Marriages and Infidelities." 45-60. Reprinted From: Soundings 58(Fall 1975): 390-406.
Bloom, Harold. "Introduction." 1-6.
Burwell, Rose Marie. "With Shuddering Fall and the Process of Individuation." 83-98. Reprinted From: "Joyce Carold Oates's First Novel." Canadian Literature 73(Summer 1977).
Coale, Samuel Chase. "Joyce Carol Oates: Contending Spirits." 119-138. Reprinted From: In Hawthorne's Shadow: American Romance from Melville to Mailer. Lexington, KY: U P of Kentucky, 1985.
Edwards, Thomas R. "The House of Atreus Now." 105-110. Reprinted From: New York Times Book Review 16 Aug. 1981: 1, 18.
Gardner, John. "The Strange Real World." 99-104. Reprinted From: New York Times Book Review 20 July 1980: 1, 21.
Karl, Frederick R. "Modes of Survival." 111-118. Reprinted From: American Fictions 1940-1980. New York: Harper, 1983.
Showalter, Elaine. "Joyce Carol Oates: A Portrait." 137-142. Reprinted From: "My Friend, Joyce Carol Oates: An Intimate Portrait." Ms. Mar. 1986: 44-46+.
Sullivan, Walter. "The Artificial Demon: Joyce Carol Oates and the Dimensions of the Real." 7-18. Reprinted In: Hollins Critic 9(Dec. 1972): 1-12.
Taylor, Gordon O. "Joyce Carol Oates: Artist in Wonderland." 23-34. Reprinted From: Southern Review Spring 1974: 490-503.
Waller, G.F. "Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland: An Introduction." 35-44. Reprinted From: Dalhousie Review 54(Autumn 1974): 480-490.
Johnson, Greg. Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1994.
Part 1: The Short Fiction
"Oates, the Short Story, and the Madness of Art," 3-14.
"A Barbarous Eden," 15-39.
"Early Feminism," 40-67.
"The Power of Allusion, the Uses of Gothic: Experiments in Form and Genre," 68-93.
"Postmodernist Allegory," 94-117.
Part 2: The Writer
"'Is There a Female Voice? Joyce Carol Oates Replies,'" 118-119.
"'The Short Story,'" 120-121.
"'The Nature of Short Fiction; or, The Nature of My Short Fiction,'" 122-128.
"From 'Fiction, Dreams, Revelations,'" 129.
"From 'Stories That Define Me: The Making of a Writer,'" 130-131.
"The State of Contemporary Short Fiction," 132-134.
"Defining the Short Story," 135-137.
"Interview, 1981," 138-140.
"On The Poisoned Kiss," 141-142.
"From 'Richard Wishnetsky: Joyce Oates Supplies a Missing View,'" 143-147.
"Short Story into Film," 148-151.
"Oates on Oates: 'Funland,'" 152-153.
"Oates on Oates: 'Heat,'" 154.
"Oates on Oates: 'The Swimmers,'" 154.
"Oates on Oates: 'Why Don't You Come Live with Me It's Time,'" 155-156.
"Reflections on the Early Stories," 157-163.
Part 3: The Critics
"William Abrahams," 164-166.
"Elaine Showalter," 167-170.
"Elizabeth Pochoda," 171-173.
"Marilyn C. Wesley," 174-180.
"Daniel L. Zins," 181-193.
"Robert McPhillips," 194-201.
"Gretchen Elizabeth Schultz," 202-212.
Reviews:
Daly, Brenda. Studies in Short Fiction 34(Spring 1997): 265.
Showalter, Elaine, ed. "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U P, 1994.
Showalter, Elaine. "Introduction." 2-22.
Oates, Joyce Carol. "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" 23-48.
Background to the Story
Moser, Don. "The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action." 51-66.
Oates, Joyce Carol. "'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film." 67-72.
Critical Essays
Daly, Brenda O. "An Unfilmable Conclusion: Joyce Carol Oates at the Movies." 145-162. Reprinted From: Journal of Popular Culture 23(Winter 1989): 101-114.
Gillis, Christina Marsden. "'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?': Seduction, Space, and a Fictional Mode." 133-140. Reprinted From: Studies in Short Fiction 18(Winter 1981): 65-70.
Quirk, Tom. "A Source for 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"' 81-90. Reprinted From: Studies in Short Fiction 18(Fall 1981): 413-419.
Rich, B. Ruby. "Good Girls, Bad Girls." 141-144.
Rubin, Larry. "Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" 109-112. Reprinted From: Explicator 42(Summer 1984): 57-60.
Schultz, Gretchen, and R.J.R. Rockwood. "In Fairyland without a Map: Connie's Exploration Inward in Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" 113-132. Reprinted From: Literature and Psychology 30, 3-4(1980): 155-167.
Urbanski, Marie Mitchell Oleson. "Existential Allegory: Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" 75-80. Reprinted From: Studies in Short Fiction 15(Spring 1978): 200-203.
Wegs, Joyce M. "'Don't You Know Who I Am?': The Grotesque in Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" 99-108. Reprinted From: Journal of Narrative Technique 5(Jan. 1975): 66-72.
Winslow, Joan D. "The Stanger Within: Two Stories by Oates and Hawthorne." 91-98. Reprinted From: Studies in Short Fiction 17(Summer 1980): 263-268.
Wagner, Linda M., ed. Critical Essays on Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979.
Rev. of Assassins. 38. Reprinted From: Time 23 Feb. 1976: 65.
Avant, John Alfred. Rev. of The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies. 36-37. Reprinted From: New Republic 31 Aug. 1974: 30-31.
Bedient, Calvin. "Vivid and Dazzling." Rev. of them. 24-26. Reprinted From: Nation 1 Dec. 1969: 609-611.
Bender, Eileen T. "'Paedomorphic' Art: Joyce Carol Oates' Childwold." 117-122.
Creighton, Joanne V. "Unliberated Women in Joyce Carol Oates's Fiction." 149-156. Reprinted From: World Literature Written in English 17(Apr. 1978): 165-175.
De Feo, Ronald. "Only Prairie Dog Mounds." 31. Reprinted From: National Review 24 Nov. 1972: 1307.
DeMott, Benjamin. "The Necessity in Art of a Reflective Intelligence." 19-23. Reprinted From: Saturday Review 22 Nov. 1969: 71-73, 89.
Fossum, Robert H. "Only Control: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates." 49-60. Reprinted From: Studies in the Novel 7(Summer 1975): 285-297.
Friedman, Ellen G. "The Journey from the 'I' to the 'Eye': Wonderland." 102-116. Reprinted From: Studies in American Fiction 8(Spring 1980): 37-50.
Glendinning, Victoria. "Hungry for God." 44-45. Reprinted From: New York Times Book Review 26 Nov. 1978: 11.
Grant, Mary Kathryn. "The Language of Tragedy and Violence." 61-76. Excerpted from Grant's The Tragic Vision of Joyce Carol Oates.
Hamilton, Ian. "Fatal Fascinations." 5. Reprinted From: New Statesman 14 Jan. 1966: 55.
Hicks, Granville. "What Is Reality?" 13-15. Reprinted From: Saturday Review 28 Oct. 1968: 3-34.
Kazin, Alfred. "On Joyce Carol Oates." 157-160. Reprinted From: "Cassandras: Porter to Oates." Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. Boston: Little, 1973. 198-205.
Madden, David. "The Violent World of Joyce Carol Oates." 6-10. Reprinted From: Studies in Short Fiction 4(Summer 1967): 369-373. Also Reprinted In: Madden, David. The Poetic Image in Six Genres. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois U P, 1969. 26-46.
Malin, Irving. "Possessive Material." 39-41.
Markmann, Charles Lam. "The Terror of Love." 27-28. Reprinted From: Nation 14 Dec. 1970: 636-637.
McConkey, James. Rev. of By the North Gate. 3-4. Reprinted From: Epoch 13(Winter 1964): 171-172.
Phillips, Robert. "The Short Story--Four Collections." 42-43. Reprinted From: Commonweal 15 Sep. 1978: 601.
Pinsker, Sanford. "Suburban Molesters: Joyce Carol Oates' Expensive People." 93-101. Reprinted From: Midwest Quarterly 19(Autumn 1977): 89-103.
Prescott, Peter S. "Everyday Monsters." 29-30. Reprinted From: Newsweek 11 Oct. 1971: 95, 100, 101A, 102.
Sterne, Richard Clark. "Versions of Rural America." 11-12. Reprinted From: Nation 1 Apr. 1968: 448, 450.
Stevens, Peter. "The Poetry of Joyce Carol Oates." 123-147.
Sullivan, Walter, "The Artificial Demon: Joyce Carol Oates and the Dimensions of the Real." 77-86. Reprinted From: Hollins Critic 9(Dec. 1972): 1-12.
Wagner, Linda W. "Joyce Carol Oates: The Changing Shapes of Her Realities." xvii-xxxi. Reprinted In: Great Lakes Review 5(Winter 1979): 15-23; Wagner, Linda W. American Modern: Essays in Fiction and Poetry. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1980. 67-75.
Waller, G.F. "Through Obsession to Transcendence: The Recent Work of Joyce Carol Oates." 161-173. Reprinted From: World Literature Written in English 17(Apr. 1978): 176-180.
Wegs, Joyce M. "Don't You Know Who I Am?: The Grotesque in Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" 87-92. Reprinted From: Journal of Narrative Technique 5(Jan. 1975): 66-72.