Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

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Criticism

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Books

Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"
A Study Guide from Gale's "Short Stories for Students"

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Edited and with an Introduction by Elaine Showalter
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1994

Johnson, Greg
Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction
New York: Twayne, 1994

Johnson, Greg
"The Short Stories (I) : The Wheel of Love"
Understanding Joyce Carol Oates
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987, p92-116

Wegs, Joyce M.
"Don't You Know Who I Am?": The Grotesque in Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Critical Essays on Joyce Carol Oates. Linda W. Wagner, ed.
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979, p87-92

Articles

Wilson,-Jordan, Jacqueline
"Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' As an Initiation Story"
Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction
3, ii (Spring 2003): 47-58

Cioe, Paul
"'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and the Fantasies of the Unconscious"
Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction
3, ii (Spring 2003): 92-97

Symington, Rodney
"Response to Alan Latta, 'Spinell and Connie: Joyce Carol Oates Re-Imagining Thomas Mann?'”
Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate
11, i (2001-2002): 116-125

Davis, Christian R.
"Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been? The Temporality of Spirituality in Satanic Temptation Narratives"
Christian Scholar’s Review
29, iii (Spring 2000): 455-469

Slimp, Stephen
"Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Explicator
57, iii (Spring 1999): 179-181

Hurley, C. Harold
"The Influence of Fannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood on Joyce Carol Oates’s 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'”
Religious Humanism
33, i/ii (Winter 1999): 68-80

Kozikowski, Stan
"The Wishes and Dreams Our Hearts Make in Oates’s 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'”
Journal of the Short Story in English
33 (Autumn, 1999): 89-103

Latta, Alan D.
"Spinell and Connie: Joyce Carol Oates Re-Imagining Thomas Mann?"
Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate
9, iii (1999-2000): 316-329

Kozikowski, Stanley
"Successfully Merchandising Hamburgers: The Eschatological Vision of Joyce Carol Oates’s 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'”
Notes on Contemporary Literature
27, iii (May 1997): 6-7

Nancy Bishop Dessommes
"O'Connor's Mrs. May and Oates's Connie: An Unlikely Pair of Religious Initiates"
Studies in Short Fiction
31, iii (Summer 1994): 433-440

Wagner-Martin, Linda
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Noelle Watson, ed.
Detroit: St. James Press, 1994, pp. 967-968

Hurley, D. F.
"Impure Realism: Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Studies in Short Fiction
28, iii (Summer 1991): 371-375

Piwinski, David J.
"Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Explicator
49, iii (Spring 1991): 195-196

Easterly, Joan
"The Shadow of the Satyr in Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Studies in Short Fiction
27, iv (Fall 1990): 537-543

Coulthard, A. R.
"Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' as Pure Realism"
Studies in Short Fiction
26, iv (Fall 1989): 505-510

Weinberger, G. J.
"Who is Arnold Friend? The Other Self in Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
American Imago
45, ii (Summer 1988): 205-215

Hall Petry, Alice
"Who is Ellie? Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Studies in Short Fiction
25, ii (Spring 1988): 155-157

Hurley, C. Harold
"Cracking the Secret Code in Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Studies in Short Fiction
24, i (Winter 1987): 62-66

Gratz, David K.
"Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Explicator
45, iii (Spring 1987): p55-56

Robson, Mark B.
"Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' Arnold Friend as Devil, Dylan, and Levite"
Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association
(1985): 98-105

Tierce, Mike and Crafton, John Michael
"Connie's Tambourine Man: A New Reading of Arnold Friend"
Studies in Short Fiction
22, ii (Spring 1985): 219-224

Rubin, Larry
"Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Explicator
42, iv (Summer 1984): 57-59

Healey, James
"Pop Music and Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Notes on Modern American Literature
7, i (Spring-Summer 1983): item 5

Robson, Mark
"Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Explicator
40, iv (Summer 1982): 59-60

Marsden Gillis, Christina
"'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?': Seduction, Space, and a Fictional Mode"
Studies in Short Fiction
18, i (Winter 1981): 65-70

Quirk, Tom
"A Source for 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Studies in Short Fiction
18, iv (Fall 1981): 413-420

Harty, Kevin J.
"Archetype and Popular Lyric in Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Pennsylvania English
8, i (1980-81): 26-28

Schultz, Gretchen and Rockwood, R.J.R.
"In Fairyland, without a Map: Connie's Exploration Inward in Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Literature and Psychology
30, iii-iv (1980): 155-167

Winslow, Joan D.
"The Stranger Within: Two Stories by Oates and Hawthorne"
Studies in Short Fiction
17, iii (Summer 1980): 262-268

Mitchell Oleson Urbanski, Marie
"Existential Allegory: Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Studies in Short Fiction
15, ii (Spring 1978): 200-203

Wegs, Joyce M.
"'Don't You Know Who I Am?': The Grotesque in Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'"
Journal of Narrative Technique
5, i (January1975): 66-72

Sullivan, Walter
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Short Story in Search of Itself"
Sewanee Review
78, iii (Summer 1970): 535-537

A Source for the Story

Moser, Don
"The Pied Piper of Tuscon: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action"
Life
(March 4, 1966): 19-24, 80-90

The Movie: Smooth Talk

Summer, Rebecca
"Smoothing Out the Rough Spots: The Film Adaptation of 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'”
Vision/Revision: Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film. Barbara Tepa Lupack, ed.
Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1996, pp. 85-100

Daly, Brenda O.
"An Unfilmable Conclusion: Joyce Carol Oates at the Movies"
Journal of Popular Culture
23, iii (Winter 1989): 101-114

Oates, Joyce Carol
"'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film"
(Woman) Writer : Occasions and Opportunities
New York: Dutton, 1988, pp. 316-321

Rich, B. Ruby
"Good Girls, Bad Girls"
Village Voice
(April 15, 1986): 69

Dedication to Bob Dylan

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