EDNOTE. Might be intreresting to look into.
Joyce Carol Oates wote a short essay about VN maybe 30 years ago in the defunct
Saturday Review of Literature.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 10:17 AM
Subject: itīs not so interesting but...
While trying to discover the source for the word/world
game quotation, I found something in the Google about Joyce Carol Oates. I
wonder if it would be of interest to the list? News on "
childwold"...
The text came from a list in a Joyce C.Oates
site:
I read somewhere that Childwold is a parody of
Vladimir Nakokov's
Lolita. I
haven't read Childwold, but in relation to what you
call the
"discombobulated" form of the novel, I think it would make
sense for the
narrative to take that kind of form. Lolita could also be
described as
"discombobulated," and a parody of Lolita would naturally be
exaggerated. JCO
is most often thought of as being a realist/romantic/gothic
author. Do you
think that Childwold is troubling because it moves away
from these forms that
we expect from her to the "postmodern"? I don't
know.