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Literary Criticism 20th Century

Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013

by (author) Robert Thacker

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2016
Category
20th Century, Women Authors, Short Stories, Literary
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552388426
    Publish Date
    Feb 2016
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552388396
    Publish Date
    Feb 2016
    List Price
    $34.95

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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.

About the author

Robert Thacker is a professor of Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence University. He is the author of Munro's biography Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives (2005, revised 2011) and the editor of The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro (1999).

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