Analysis of 'Where Is Here?' by Joyce Carol Oates.docx

Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Is Here?” as a contemporary Gothic ghost story. According to the editors of the Prentice-Hall Literature text entitled The American Experience, author Joyce Carol Oates’ discovery of the stories of Ann Radcliff and Edgar Allen Poe “sparked her interest in Gothic fiction” (324).These Gothic elements typically include “bleak or remote settings, macabre or ... ................
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