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 under...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964- (Editor ), Lynch, Gerald, 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Munro, Alice, > 1931-
Munro, Alice, > 1931- > Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Alice Munro's miraculous art / Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch
  • "This is not a story, only life" : wondering with Alice Munro / Robert Thacker
  • I. Form. 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 Loschnigg
  • Bridging the gaps through story cycle : The view from castle rock / Tina Grigg
  • II. 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
  • III. 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.

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