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Literary Criticism Feminist

Alice Munro: Paradox and Parallel

by (author) Walter R. Martin

Publisher
The University of Alberta Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1987
Category
Feminist
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888641168
    Publish Date
    Jan 1987
    List Price
    $16.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780888641151
    Publish Date
    Jan 1987
    List Price
    $25.00

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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

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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.”

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