Fiction in Fact and Fact in Fiction in the Writing of Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates draws extensively on news stories, as well as on elements of her own family’s past, to find inspiration for her works of fiction. She has written about the Chappaquiddick incident involving Ted Kennedy and the JonBenet Ramsay murder case. She has worked the Niagara Falls Love Canal...
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University of San Francisco
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies |
| Online Access: | http://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=jcostudies |