What is true about O'Connor is that she was trained to write stories like this.

我只知道奥康纳曾被训练去写这样的故事
Flannery O'Connor-- and this is, again, that context coming in--

这是第二个我们阅读时需要考虑的背景
Flannery O'Connor was a student at the Iowa Writers Workshop,

弗兰纳里?奥康纳曾在爱荷华写作班学习过
a very prestigious writing program.

一个非常有威望的写作班
Even then, it was a very prestigious writing program.

即便那时它就已经久负盛名了
There is a peculiarity for writing in the second half of the twentieth century,

二十世纪后半叶的文坛有一个特点
and here I'm drawing on another critic, from UCLA;

这里我引用来自加大洛杉矶分校的一位评论家的论述
his name is Mark McGurl.

他的名字是马克?麦格尔
He has argued that what is historically novel about this period

他认为这段时期相比于其他历史时期不同的是
is that writers have consistently been located in universities.

作家始终都呆在大学里
They have been trained at universities;

他们在大学里接受专门培训
they have taught at universities; they have gone to creative writing

他们在大学里教书