Alice Munro S Miraculous Art

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Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro’s career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario to her final books. It offers an enlightening range of approaches and interpretive strategies, and provides many new perspectives, reconsidered positions and analyses that will enhance the reading, teaching, and appreciation of Munro’s remarkable—indeed miraculous—work. Following the editors’ introduction—which surveys Munro’s recurrent themes, explains the design of the book, and summarizes each contribution—Munro biographer Robert Thacker contributes a substantial bio-critical introduction to her career. The book is then divided into three sections, focusing on Munro’s characteristic forms, themes, and most notable literary effects.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Janice Fiamengo
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Release : 2017-02-14
File : 399 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780776624358


New Realism In Alice Munro S Fiction

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The book studies Alice Munro’s inheritance of and contribution to realism in fiction. Nobel Prize winner Munro follows the empirical tradition of the Enlightenment and draws on her life as a daughter, wife, mother, and professional writer while composing her fiction to reflect Canadian reality. She infuses her intellectual, moral, and aesthetic vision into her stories. This study analyzes her innovative realism in three respects: Her views on feminism and women’s issues, her firm yet sympathetic moral stance, and her reconstitution of traditional and modernist (post-modernist) methods of portraying character in time and space. Munro’s brand of realism is underpinned by her philosophical perception, her level-headed morality, her dialectical mind, and her versatile narrative style. This monograph, a voice from China, offers a deep philosophical reading of Munro. Students of the Canadian author, graduate or undergraduate, may find this book useful.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Li-Ping Geng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2022-07-29
File : 137 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000606911


Reading Alice Munro S Breakthrough Books

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What in terms of Alice Munro’s creative artistry and creative power allowed her to become the first and only short story writer, the first and only Canadian, and just the thirteenth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? And exactly when during Munro’s career did her artistry and power advance to ensure that she would earn such world-wide renown? The answers lie in studying the boldly innovative yet greatly under-examined group of her four mid-career breakthrough books. Our volume therefore provides a carefully orchestrated analysis of Munro’s subtle yet potent handling of form, technique and style both within individual stories and across these special collections. Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices not only addresses a significant vacancy in Munro criticism – and, by extension, in all short story criticism – but, equally importantly, offers an exciting new model for how criticism can be collectively written.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : J.R. (Tim) Struthers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
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File : 353 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781399534550


A Multimodal Stylistic Approach To Screen Adaptations Of The Work Of Alice Munro

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This volume brings together perspectives from multimodal stylistics and adaptation studies for a unified theoretical analysis of adaptations of the work of Alice Munro, demonstrating the affordances of the approach in furthering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of these fields The book considers films and television programmes as complex multimodal stylistic systems in and of themselves in order to pave the way for a clearer understanding of screen adaptations as expressions of modal, medial, and aesthetic change. In focusing on Munro, Francesconi draws attention to a writer whose body of work has been adapted widely across television and film for an international market over several decades, offering a diachronic overview and insights into the confluence of socio-cultural contexts, audiences, and dynamics of production and distribution across adaptations. The volume complements this perspective with a microanalysis of the adaptations themselves, exploring the varied creative use of audio-visual dimensions, including sound, light, and movement. The book seeks to overcome simplified fidelity-based understandings of screen adaptations more broadly, showcasing creative multi-layered approaches to a creator’s oeuvre to effect true transformation across media and modes. The volume will be of interest to scholars in multimodality, adaptation studies, film studies, and comparative literature.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Sabrina Francesconi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2022-12-27
File : 126 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000850901


Alice Munro Paradox And Parallel

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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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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Walter R. Martin
Publisher : University of Alberta
Release : 1987
File : 254 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0888641168


Women S Writing In Canada

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Author : Patricia Demers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
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File : 357 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780802095015


The Epistolary Renaissance

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Since the late twentieth century, letters in literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of letters in recent fiction is due in part to the rediscovery, by contemporary writers, of letters as an effective tool for rendering aspects of historicity, liminality, marginalization and the expression of subjectivity vis-à-vis an ‘other’; it is also due, however, to the artistically challenging inclusion of the new electronic media of communication into fiction. While studies of epistolary fiction have so far concentrated on the eighteenth century and on thematic concerns, this volume charts the epistolary renaissance in recent literature, entering new territory by also focusing on the aesthetic implications of the epistolary mode. In particular, the essays in this volume illuminate the potential of the epistolary (including digital forms) for rendering contemporary sensitivities. The volume thus offers a comprehensive assessment of letter narratives in contemporary literature. Through its focus on the aesthetic and structural aspects of new epistolary fiction, the inclusion of various narrative forms, and the consideration of both conventional letters and their new digital kindred, The Epistolary Renaissance offers novel insight into a multi-facetted (re)new(ed) genre.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Maria Löschnigg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release : 2018-09-10
File : 306 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783110584813


Stories In Letters Letters In Stories

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This book deals with letters in Anglophone Canadian short stories of the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century in the context of liminality. It argues that in the course of the epistolary renaissance, the letter – which has often been deemed to be obsolete in literature – has not only enjoyed an upsurge in novels but also migrated to the short story, thus constituting the genre of the epistolary short story. .

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Rebekka Schuh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release : 2021-10-04
File : 366 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783110726237


The Publishers Weekly

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Genre : American literature
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Release : 1881
File : 912 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015033464150


The Athenaeum

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Genre : Arts
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Release : 1875
File : 892 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112042709979