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  3. Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories By The North Gates, in 1962, two years after she had received

Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories By The North Gates, in 1962, two years after she had received

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问题   Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories By The North Gates, in 1962, two years after she had received her Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and become an instructor of English at the University of Detroit. Her productivity since then has been prodigious, accumulating in less than two decades to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short stories and verse, plays, and literary criticism. In the meantime, she has continued to teach, moving in 1967 from the University of Detroit to the University of Windsor, in Ontario, and in 1978 to Princeton University. Reviewers have admired her enormous energy, but find a productivity of such magnitude difficult to assess.
  In a period characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old-fashioned in her insistence on the essentially mimetic quality of her fiction. Hers is a world of violence, insanity, fractured love, and hopeless loneliness. Although some of it appears to come from her own observations, her dreams, and her fears. Much more is clearly form the experience of others. Her first novel, With Shuddering Fall (1964), dealt with stock car racing, though she had never seen a race. In Them (1969) she focused on Detroit from the Depression through the riots of 1967, drawing much of her material from the Depression made on her by the problems of one of her students. Whatever the source and however shocking the events or the motivations, however, her fictive world remains strikingly akin to that real one reflected in the daily newspapers, the television news and talk shows, and the popular magazines of our day.
Oates’ book Them is ______.
选项 A、a typical novel of the 1960’s
B、her best piece of nonfiction
C、a fictional work based on the experiences of another person
D、an autobiography
答案C
解析 在介绍这部作品时，提到Oates是取材于她的一个学生的经历，In Them (1969) she focused on Detroit from the Depression through the riots of 1967，drawing much of her material from the Depression made on her by the problems of one of her students，因此这也可以算得上是一道记忆题。
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