Alice Munro: Paradox and Parallel
- Publisher
- The University of Alberta Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1987
- Category
- Feminist
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888641168
- Publish Date
- Jan 1987
- List Price
- $16.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888641151
- Publish Date
- Jan 1987
- List Price
- $25.00
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Out of print
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Description
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.
About the author
Professor of English at the University of Waterloo
Editorial Reviews
“Martin seems to define just where Munro’s art was then as it continued to gain complexity but, more significant, he foresaw just where she was heading … That he did so in the middle of her publishing career, just as considerable critical attention was beginning to burgeon, and when the sustained complexity of late Munro was emerging, shows a singular critical acuity.”
Canadian Literature