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  • February 10, 2019
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VIOLENCE AS AN INTEGRAL ELEMENT OF REALITY (BASED ON THE COLLECTION “HAUNTED: TALES OF THE GROTESQUE” BY JOYCE CAROL OATES)

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Abstract

The article deals with the problem of violence and cruelty manifestation in the modern world by the material of Joyce Carol Oates’s creative work. The author reveals that environment affects human behaviour. The paper notes that the identification of the features of the writer’s vision of human behaviour in the surrounding society expands modern ideas both about Joyce Carol Oates’s creative work and the causes of changes in the social system, the causes of violence and cruelty manifestation. For the study, the author uses psychological, comparative-historical, socio-cultural methods by the material of the collection “Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque” by Joyce Carol Oates.

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Author information

Marina Il’inichna Vechkanova

Saransk Cooperative Institute (Branch) of the Russian University of Cooperation

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Publication history

  • Received: November 7, 2018.
  • Published: February 10, 2019.

Keywords

  • гротеск
  • Дж. К. Оутс
  • сборник «Одержимые: рассказы гротеска»
  • рассказ
  • тема насилия
  • grotesque
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • collection “Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque”
  • story
  • theme of violence

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