Nietzsche and Joyce Carol Oates

<p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Nietzsche and Joyce Carol Oates</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> explores the American novelist's </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Wonderland Quartet</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> through a reading of the German philosopher's seminal works. In the four books of </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Wonderland Quartet - A Garden of Earthly Delights</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> (1967) </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Expensive People</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> (1968) the National Book Award-winning </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Them</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> (1969) and </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Wonderland</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> (1971) - Oates aestheticizes cultural experiments after the Nietzschean proclamation of God is dead permeated American culture from about 1950. What may be delineated as Oates's original literary scholarship is her ability to reflect on the cultural reception of Walter Kaufmann's work on Nietzsche in her fiction while enabling her characters to find their purposes. Echoing Nietzsche her characters are not limited by normative standards. The author's narrative techniques allow her characters' polyphonic voices to dominate the flow.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><span>?</span></span></p>