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The Acceptance Of Literary Elements In Joyce Carol Oates's Life

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According to her biography, young Joyce enjoying the natural surroundings of farm country, appear premature interested in writing a book. Although her parents have little education, they encouraged her ambitions. At the age of 14, when her grandmother gave her first typewriter, she began, "write the novel after novel," Through high school and college, to consciously prepare herself. Joyce Carol Oates has written 56 novels, over 30 collections of short stories, 8 volumes of poetry, plays, countless essays and book reviews, as well as longer nonfiction works on literary subjects (arts.princeton.edu). Whenever she asked how she how she accomplished to create so much tremendous work in a varied diversity of categories, she gave the same basic answer,

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