The Washington Post, March 8th, 1987
ON BOXING By Joyce Carol Oates With photographs by John Ranard Doubleday. 118 pp. $14.95 JOYCE CAROL OATES' essay on boxing is writing for writing's sake. It does not describe physical details or convey emotions so much as it analyzes them. It communicates ideas, but as a byproduct of the writer's decision to write about a particular subject, not as a disciplined attempt to communicate coherent, researched themes. It does not tell a story. Like so much of Good Modern Literature, it sets out to entertain only that class of readers deriving pleasure from casual intellectualization. The result re...
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