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  3. Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories, By The North Gate, in 1963, two years after she had received

Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories, By The North Gate, in 1963, 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 Gate, in 1963, 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 verses, plays, and literary criticism. In the meantime, she has continued to teach, moving in 1967 from the University of Detroit to the University of verses, 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 direct observations, her dreams, and her fears, much more is clearly from the experiences of others. Her first novel, With Shuddering FaU(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 deep impression 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.
Why does the author mention Oates’s book Them?
选项 A、It is a typical novel of the 1960’s.
B、It is her best piece of nonfiction.
C、It is a fictional work based on the experiences of another person.
D、It is an autobiography.
答案C
解析 细节定位题。文中在第2段倒数第2句提及作品“Them”，原句是：In Them(1969)she focused on Detroit from the Depression through the riots of l967, drawing much of her material from the deep impression made on her by the problems of one of her students. 意思是：素材来源于一个印象深刻的学生，所以，C项“是一部小说作品，以其他人的经历为模型”正确。
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