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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and indexes
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781459304246
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.M8
- LCCN Item number
- Z74 1987eb
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- DLC
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 235 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603452 (OCoLC)243593605 (CaOOCEL)405683
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- DLC
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Abbreviations 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction 12
- 1 The Strange and the Familiar 16
- 2 Early Uncollected Stories (1950–1957) 29
- The Three Folio Stories 29
- Two More Teachers of Latin 34
- The Rich Vein 37
- Two Misses and a Hit 40
- 3 Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) 44
- First Steps in the Dance 46
- Accomplishment: Content and Form in Two Stories 54
- Four Dances 63
- Two Experiments 68
- Acclaim 71
- 4 Lives of Girls and Women (1971) 73
- Diversity: Mystery and Wonder 73
- Diversity: Irony 76
- Incongruities 78
- Definition by Difference 81
- The Sexual Paradigm 83
- The Composition of Lives of Girls and Women 86
- Linked Stories or Novel? 90
- 5 Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974) 92
- Time Sequences 92
- Hanging Stories Together 94
- Constellations 106
- 6 Who Do You Think You Are? (The Beggar Maid) (1978) 113
- The Ten "Linked" Stories 113
- The First Four Stories 116
- The Middle 124
- The End 134
- A Pendant 141
- 7 The Moons of Jupiter (1982) 143
- The Opening Pair 147
- Five Stories: From "Dulse" to "Prue" 149
- The New Tide: The Last Five Stories 160
- 8 Late Uncollected Stories (1974–1986) 179
- "Home" 180
- "Characters" 182
- "Wood" 183
- "The Ferguson Girls Must Never Marry" 185
- The Latest Stories 190
- 9 Artistry 202
- 10 Conclusion 218
- Alice Munro's Fiction 222
- Notes 228
- Bibliography 236
- General Index 242
- A 242
- B 242
- C 242
- D 242
- E 243
- F 243
- G 243
- H 243
- I 243
- J 243
- K 243
- L 243
- M 244
- N 245
- O 245
- P 245
- Q 245
- R 245
- S 246
- T 246
- U 246
- V 246
- W 246
- Y 246
- Index of Alice Munro's Works 248
- A 248
- B 248
- C 248
- D 248
- E 249
- F 249
- G 249
- H 249
- I 249
- J 249
- L 249
- M 249
- O 249
- P 250
- Q 250
- R 250
- S 250
- T 250
- V 250
- W 250
