Contents: IntroductionPlot Summary Characters Themes Style Critical Overview Criticism Sources |
Further Reading
- Adams, Michael J. “Jayne Anne Phillips,” in Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographic Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery, Greenwood, 1986, pp. 481-83.
Useful reference guide.
- Hill, Dorothy Combs. “Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips,” in South Carolina Review, Fall, 1991, pp. 53-73.
Phillips discusses her life and career.
- Lassner, Phyllis. “Women’s Narration and the Recreation of History,” in American Women Writing Fiction, edited by Mickey Perlman, University Press of Kentucky, 1989, pp. 193-206.
An exploration of the different narrative voices in Machine Dreams considered individually and as contributing to the overall effect of the novel.
- Price, Joanna. “Remembering Vietnam: Subjectivity and Mourning in American New Realist Writing,” in Journal of American Studies, August, 1993, pp. 173-86.
Besides touching on the question of “new realism,” Price explores Phillips’s treatment of character and the Vietnam war in the novel Machine Dreams.
