Critical Response to Ann Beattie

JAYE BERMAN MONTRESOR is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University. She has published critical essays and periodicals on such various subjects as James Joyce, Donald Barthelme, postmodernism, feminist, and Bakhtinian approaches to literature, humor in literature, and Judaism ln literature.

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Introduction On Ann Beattie Ann Beattie's Magic Slate or The End of the Sixties Images of Void in Beattie's "Shifting" Through "The Octascope": A View of Ann Beattie Literary Waifs Squashed Frogs, Flattened Feelings Three Novels Marge Piercy and Ann Beattie Ann Beattie and the Hippoisie The World According to Beattie Women and Happiness Ann Beattie: The Art of the Missing Throwing a Spotlight on the Past The World as Burning House: Ann Beattie and the Buddha A Conversation with Ann Beattie Lost in a Joyless Limbo Photographs and Fantasies in the Stories of Ann Beattie The Speaking Silence of Ann Beattie's Voice Frames, Images, and the Abyss Psychasthenic Negotiation in Ann Beattie Little Boy Lost: Exploring Childhood's Rough New Landscape Ann Beattie's Picturing Will: Changing Our Images of "Good" Mothers and Fathers "Some Other Charade": Homo/Heterosexual Definition in Ann Beattie Picturing Ann Beattie: A Dialogue Affairs of Families: A First-Rate Writer Captures Her Generation The Slice of Life: Paring it Thin in What Was Mine This was in 1992, in Iowa City: Talking with Ann Beattie Selected Bibliography Index