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Title: Joyce Carol Oates - On Writing Characters
Added: Aug 10, 2007
Author: ForaTv
Duration: 5:40
Description:
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1204Critically acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates discusses how a writer develops realistic characters, using examples from her novel "The Gravedigger's Daughter."-----Joyce Carol Oates talks about "The Gravedigger's Daughter."A family desperate to escape Nazi Germany settles in upstate New York, where the father is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger an cemetery caretaker. What follows is a tale of unspeakable tragedy, as the gravedigger's daughter begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of ingenious self-invention and bittersweet triumph - Book PassageJoyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978.She serves as associate editor for the Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher, both of which are edited by her husband, Raymond J. Smith.Oates has also written under the pseudonyms "Rosamond Smith" and "Lauren Kelly."Her most recent book is "The Gravedigger's Daughter."
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Jan 30, 2011 - What a sympathetic woman! It shows in her writing; Oates's books have heart.
dyad2r1 Says:
Feb 16, 2011 - Her most recent book is "A Widow's Story" amid much hoopla. Unfortunately, this "grieving" Jewish widow remarried less than a year after her husband's death.
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Feb 22, 2011 - Atlas Shrugged movie trailer on youtube.
thedanglingdude Says:
May 2, 2011 - Joyce Carol Oates looks like a praying mantis
thedanglingdude Says:
May 2, 2011 - Joyce Carol Oates looks like a praying mantis
handsomechuck1 Says:
Jun 24, 2011 - She said "necessarily," but I'm surprised she makes the generalization about characters in poetry; considering that much of the very greatest poetry in the language (Robert Browning, Shakespeare's sonnets [OK, can be argued, but I am confident the speaker is a literary device and not the voice of WS], Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost) is so character-strong, so to speak.
DavidProphetTV Says:
Jul 19, 2011 - Why is it unfortunate?
broccolifan1 Says:
Jul 21, 2011 - ha i live like 10 minutes from where she is. Where Are You Going Where Have You Been? is one of the most chilling stories I've ever read
dyad2r1 Says:
Jul 21, 2011 - It took her less than a year to remarry. For a woman in deep grief, it sure didn't take long for her to change the bedsheets and bring in the next one.
Tapey01 Says:
Jul 31, 2011 - Funny I like the beginning the best, finding solutions and planing it all out is my favorite part of writing. I get a bit bored by the end of writing the book.
MsChamallow Says:
Sep 18, 2011 - i'm french and i'm a fan to the amazing writer !!! in this period i read my sister my love, incredible book
MrLogocan Says:
Nov 21, 2011 - 500 characters 486 characters 470 characters 455 characters 440 characters 425 characters 410 characters 395 characters 380 characters 365 characters 350 characters 335 characters 320 characters 305 characters 290 characters 275 characters 260 characters 245 characters 230 characters 215 characters 200 characters 185 characters 170 characters 155 characters 140 characters 125 characters 110 characters 95 characters 81 characters 67 characters 53 characters 39 characters 25 characters 11 characte
johnnyforjohnny Says:
Nov 30, 2011 - I'm surprised by how mean-spirited some of these comments are. I guess noone is immune from online invective. Oates is a thoughtful, brilliant writer and these are some great insights.
ACSDistanceEducation Says:
Jan 10, 2012 - First and foremost, sucessful writers write.
superkateri1 Says:
Feb 22, 2012 - I can't help but thinking that her gestures, way of speaking and everything reminds me of Phoebe in "friends"...
exeuroweenie Says:
Mar 26, 2012 - It's eerie,I've been poring over her(vast) body of work for years.Until now I've never seen her on video-just a few pictures.Her voice,mien,speech patterns and mannerisms are exactly what I'd imagined,though.People I see on a daily basis don't seem as familiar.
ahappykitten Says:
Apr 4, 2012 - I used to like people, before I became exhausted of them.
DixieKorley Says:
Apr 10, 2012 - that would be really cool. ill do that. i
DixieKorley Says:
Apr 10, 2012 - you should write the ending, and then the beginning and middle will be super easy
Federico Campbell Quiroz Says:
May 11, 2012 - La concentración continuada es lo más difícil de conseguir. Una vez que se conquista, la concentración persistente, cada vez más profunda, es lo más parecido a la felicidad. If you are not capable of focus you simple don't have it: you're not a writer. Federico Campbell
UtopiaMinor666 Says:
May 23, 2012 - She is so right about being a young writer; it is hellish.
Bloodsport1 Says:
Jan 2, 2011 - Dude, hold on to that, Hollywood would basically changed your story for the worst.