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In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, ending w...

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Published: University of Calgary Press 2022
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-574982022-07-19T03:04:53Z Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 Thacker, Robert Literary criticism Biography bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning 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. 2022-07-18T11:54:49Z 2022-07-18T11:54:49Z 2016 book ONIX_20220718_9781552388402_75 9781552388402 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57498 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781552388402.pdf University of Calgary Press 5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527 9781552388402 320 Calgary open access
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description In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning 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.
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