Joyce Carol Oates’s “By the River”

Joyce Carol Oates's "By the River"

Original article

Bernd Engler. "Nightmare Visions of Eden: Recollections of Home in Joyce Carol Oates's "By the River"." Connotations Vol. 7.3: 306-19.

Responses:

Daniel F. Hurley. Joyce Carol Oates's "By the River" Connotations 8: 136-45

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From Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

Read by Leonie Kirchhoff, Miriam Lahrsow, and Susanne Riecker

When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver

Read by Sophie Franklin

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

From Henry V
by William Shakespeare

Read by Annika Zacharias

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother;

From Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

Read by Vera Yakupova

With those words, the old lady very gently placed Oliver`s head upon the pillow and, smoothing back his hair from his forehead, looked up so kindly and lovingly in his face that he could not help placing his little withered hand in hers, and drawing it round his neck.