Reading Alice Munro : 1973-2013 / Robert Thacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thacker, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Munro, Alice, 1931-2024--Criticism and interpretation.

Munro, Alice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2016

Place of Publication:

Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, [2016]

Summary:

In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing over forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, ending with encompassing afterword, this collection provides a selection of essays and reviews that reflect their times and tell the story of Munro's emergence and recognition as an internationally acclaimed writer since the 1970s. Acknowledging her beginnings and her persistence as a writer of increasingly exceptional short stories, and just short stories, it treats her career through Thacker's criticism up to her fourteenth collection, Dear Life (2012), and to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Altogether, this book encompasses the whole trajectory of Munro's critical presence while offering a singularly informed retrospective perspective.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction : Alice Munro's "approach and recognition"

part One. Narrative techniques, forms, and critical issues : establishing a presence

part Two. What the archives reveal : reading a deepening aesthetic

part Three. Understanding the oeuvre

Afterword : "A wonderful stroke of good fortune for me" : reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.

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ISBN:

1-55238-841-7

OCLC:

931152180