Concentrating on her most recent collections, this introduction to Canada's greatest short story writer shows how Alice Munro uses fluid concepts of time to subvert notions of a single fixed reality.
Concentrating on her most recent collections, this introduction to Canada's greatest short story writer shows how Alice Munro uses fluid concepts of ...
Alice Munro s standing as a major contemporary author has long been acknowledged in her native Canada, especially among her fellow writers. Her reputation developed slowly, from small magazines and radio in the fifties, to three Governor General s Awards and regular appearances in The New Yorker. As a short story writer she is working within a critically neglected genre. Yet short fiction displays an intensity of language and experience that is rarely sustainable across longer forms. Drawing on Bakhtinian theory, Ailsa Cox looks at ways in which Munro develops the short story s affinity with...
Alice Munro s standing as a major contemporary author has long been acknowledged in her native Canada, especially among her fellow writers. Her reputa...
The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism and genre. This book offers a practical guide to the short story in the classroom, covering all these fields and more.
The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many comp...
