Essays:

1. Imaginary Cities: America 
2. "At Least I Have Made a Woman of Her": Images of Women in Yeats, Lawrence, Faulkner 
3. The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights 
4. Charles Dodgson's Golden Hours 
5. John Updike's American Comedies 
6. Notes on Failure 
7. Reviews : The Interior Castle: The Art of Jean 
8. Stafford's Short Fiction 
9. Before God was Love: The Short Stories of Paul Bowles 
10. Colette's Purgatory 
11. Geza Csath's Garden: The Contours of Surrealism 
12. The "Mysticism" of Simone Weil
13. Legendary Jung
14. Anne Sexton: Self-Portrait in Poetry and Letters 
15. Sacred and Profane Iris Murdoch 
16. Flannery O'Connor: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Book details:

• Title: The profane art: essays and reviews 
• Author: Joyce Carol Oates
• Condition: Very Good
• Binding: Grey Boards with Dustjacket.
• Publisher: Dutton New York
• Publication Date: 1983. First Edition