Deadly Girls' Voices, Suspense, and the "Aesthetics of Fear" in Joyce Carol Oates's "The Banshee" and "Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi"
This article focuses on deadly girls’ voices in "The Banshee" and "Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi," two short stories taken from Joyce Carol Oates’s collection The Female of the Species, subtitled Tales of Mystery and Suspense. It shows that children are used as leading and f...
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University of San Francisco
2015-08-01
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| Series: | Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies |
| Online Access: | http://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=jcostudies |