Joyce Carol Oates
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Online Video Featuring Oates
In this video, Oates gives us the reasoning behind why she chose to dedicate her short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" to Bob Dylan. At the time she was writing this short story, Bob Dylan just came out with his song, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, and several other songs in the same album. Oates says, "That song and other songs were like fairy tales, or rather nursery rhymes that had gone wrong." She continues to expand on that thought by saying the gothic imagery in the song is very much like the imagery she uses in this story, so she decided to dedicate it to him. We talked about why she might have dedicated it to him in class, so I thought it would be a good idea to get the reasoning clarified.
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Laura,
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cool video! I like how you posted this video because we read it in class. I liked how she gave the reasoning behind the story and why she wrote it for Bob Dylan. It is such a dark story and the explanation really helped. Thanks for sharing this video!
I love what she had to say, but I wish she also explained more about the story itself to clarify more behind its meaning.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this! I was so curious in class as to why she would dedicate it to him i was trying to think of all the possibilities while reading the short story after i saw it was dedicated to him.
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