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Joyce Carol Oates on the Transcendent Nature of Writing

July 10, 2014 Leave a Comment

One must be pitiless about this matter of “mood.” In a sense, the writing willcreate the mood. If art is, as I believe it to be, a genuinely transcendental function—a means by which we rise out of limited, parochial states of mind—then it should not matter very much what states of mind or emotion we are […]

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