Alice Munro's miraculous art : critical essays

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"This collection offers 16 original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings, providing an enlightening range of approaches and interpretive strategies by her most eminent critics. The essays cover the entirety of Munro's career, from the first stories she published as an undergraduate at The University of Western Ontario in the early 1950s to her final books (presumably), The View from Castle Rock and Dear Life. Following the editors' int...

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Munro, Alice, 1931- Criticism and interpretation

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Re-appraisals, Canadian writers Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 38 Reappraisals : Canadian writers Reappraisals : Canadian writers ; [38]

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ISBN:

9780776624334

Description:

x, 309 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Miraculous art

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Alice Munro's miraculous art / Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch
"This is not a story, only life" : wondering with Alice Munro / Robert Thacker
Forms. Living in the story : fictional reality in the stories of Alice Munro / Charles E. May ; From Munro's Lives to Shield's "scenes" : a Canadian female Bildungsroman that "fit[s] into the hollow of her hand" / Laurie Kruk ; "The stuff they put in the old readers" : remembered and recited poetry in the stories of Alice Munro / Sara Jamieson ; Carried away by letters : Alice Munro and epistolary mode / Maria Löschnigg ; Bridging the gaps through story cycle : The view from castle rock / Tina Grigg
Themes. The short stories of Alice Laidlaw, 1950-51 / D.M.R. Bentley ; Momentous shifts and unimagined changes in "Jakarta" / Tracy Ware ; "First and last" : the figure of the infant in "Dear life" and "My mother's dream" / Ailsa Cox ; Invasion narratives : Alice Munro's "Free radicals" and Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" / Carol L. Beran ; Religion in Alice Munro's Lives of girls and women and Who do you think you are? / Josephene Kealey
Effects. "Something" : the "dark side" of Alice Munro's story-telling in its American context / David R. Jarraway ; Desire and deferral : "royal beating" / Ian Dennis ; "Don't take her word for it" : autobiographical approximation and shame in Munro's The view from castle rock / Linda M. Morra ; Once upon a time : temporarily in the narration of Alice Munro / E.D. Blodgett
L'Envoi: On sitting down to read "Lichen" once again / Magdalene Redekop

Control Number:

2630601

Other Authors:

Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964- editor
Lynch, Gerald, 1953- editor

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