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Alice Munro : paradox and parallel / W.R. Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, W. R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Munro, Alice, 1931---Criticism and interpretation.
- Munro, Alice.
- Canadian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- Beginning with her earliest, uncollected stories, W.R. Martin critically examines Alice Munro's writing career. He discusses influences on Munro and presents an overview of the prominent features of her art: the typical protagonist, the development of her narrative technique, and the dialectic that involves paradoxes and parallels.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Strange and the Familiar
- 2 Early Uncollected Stories (1950-1957)
- The Three Folio Stories
- Two More Teachers of Latin
- The Rich Vein
- Two Misses and a Hit
- 3 Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
- First Steps in the Dance
- Accomplishment: Content and Form in Two Stories
- Four Dances
- Two Experiments
- Acclaim
- 4 Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
- Diversity: Mystery and Wonder
- Diversity: Irony
- Incongruities
- Definition by Difference
- The Sexual Paradigm
- The Composition of Lives of Girls and Women
- Linked Stories or Novel?
- 5 Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
- Time Sequences
- Hanging Stories Together
- Constellations
- 6 Who Do You Think You Are? (The Beggar Maid) (1978)
- The Ten "Linked" Stories
- The First Four Stories
- The Middle
- The End
- A Pendant
- 7 The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
- The Opening Pair
- Five Stories: From "Dulse" to "Prue
- The New Tide: The Last Five Stories
- 8 Late Uncollected Stories (1974-1986)
- Home
- Characters
- Wood
- The Ferguson Girls Must Never Marry
- The Latest Stories
- 9 Artistry
- 10 Conclusion
- Alice Munro's Fiction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Index of Alice Munro's Works
- W.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4593-0424-1
- 1-4175-9297-4
- OCLC:
- 647753868
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