The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

ISBN-13: 9781107093270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 222 str.

David Staines

Opis

This Companion is a complete introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro.

Recenzje

'A melding of literary analysis, biography, and artistic appreciation, The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro … collects 10 essays, edited by David Staines … Staines contributes an efficient introduction and one of two chapters on the importance of the Canadian setting in Alice Munro's short stories. … Notable among the other contributors is Canadian author Margaret Atwood … who focuses her discussion on Munro's 1971 short-story collection Lives of Girls and Women.' Colloquy

Spis treści

Introduction David Staines; 1. From Wingham to Clinton: Alice Munro in her Canadian context David Staines; 2. Where do you think you are? Place in the short stories of Alice Munro Merilyn Simonds; 3. The style of Alice Munro Douglas Glover; 4. 'Oranges and Apples': Alice Munro's undogmatic feminism Maria Löschnigg; 5. Alice Munro and her life writing Coral Ann Howells; 6. Lives of girls and women: a portrait of the artist as a young woman Margaret Atwood; 7. Re-reading The Moons of Jupiter W. H. New; 8. Alice Munro and personal development Robert McGill; 9. The female bard: retrieving Greek myths, Celtic ballads, Norse sagas, and popular songs Héliane Ventura; 10. The mother as material Elizabeth Hay; Bibliography; Index.