Literary Marriages
Loeb, Monica A series of intertextual short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, published in 1972, constitutes the subject-matter of the present work. Having entered into ¿literary marriages¿ with beloved masters, such as Kafka, Joyce, Thoreau, Flaubert, James and Chekhov, Oates has ¿re-imagined¿ their classic masterpieces.
This study aims at finding out whether Oates remains ¿faithful¿ to the original versions. What elements besides the titles are retained, or...