Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1552388409
Reading Alice Munro
Robert Thacker
Reading Alice Munro 1973 2013
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Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013
Robert Thacker
Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1552388395
Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 by Robert Thacker Pdf
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.
Alice Munro
Robert Thacker
Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474231015
Alice Munro by Robert Thacker Pdf
The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), and her final collection Dear Life (2012). With chapters written by the world's leading critics of Munro's work, the short story form and contemporary Canadian writing, this book explores such themes as love and marriage, sex, fate, gender and humor in her writings as well as her approaches to narrative form and autobiography. In these three late collections Munro sharply articulates, again and again, the mysteries of being itself.
Alice Munro
Robert Thacker
Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474231008
Alice Munro by Robert Thacker Pdf
The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), and her final collection Dear Life (2012). With chapters written by the world's leading critics of Munro's work, the short story form and contemporary Canadian writing, this book explores such themes as love and marriage, sex, fate, gender and humor in her writings as well as her approaches to narrative form and autobiography. In these three late collections Munro sharply articulates, again and again, the mysteries of being itself.
Alice Munro's Late Style
Robert Thacker
Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270398
Alice Munro's Late Style by Robert Thacker Pdf
Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'. Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book focuses on Munro's art of recursion - an approach that has been evident throughout her career but came to the fore in her last three books, The View from Castle Rock (2006), Too Much Happiness (2009) and, especially, Dear Life (2012). This recursion and return manifest themselves not only in Munro's return to previously published pieces, but also to her discovery and meditations on her Scottish heritage, which can be read as entrance to her own understanding of herself and her life. Its provenance, displayed through archival evidence, is complex yet reveals a writer intent on a precise late style. Munro's final works serve as a coda to both her late style and to her entire career as arguably one of the finest short story writers ever to put pen to paper.
Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives
Robert Thacker
Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771084683
Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives by Robert Thacker Pdf
This is the book about one of the world’s great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine. For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro’s life and work, working with her co-operation to make it complete. The result is a feast of information for Alice Munro’s admirers everywhere. By following “the parallel tracks” of Alice Munro’s life and Alice Munro’s texts, he gives a thorough and revealing account of both her life and work. “There is always a starting point in reality,” she once said of her stories, and this book reveals just how often her stories spring from her life. The book is chronological, starting with her pioneer ancestors, but with special attention paid to her parents and to her early days growing up poor in Wingham. Then all of her life stages—the marriage to Jim Munro, the move to Vancouver, then to Victoria to start the bookstore, the three daughters, the divorce, the return to Huron County, and the new life with Gerry Fremlin—leading to the triumphs as, story by story, book by book, she gains fame around the world, until rumours of a Nobel Prize circulate . . .
Selected Stories of Alice Munro, 1968-1994
Alice Munro
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307814623
Selected Stories of Alice Munro, 1968-1994 by Alice Munro Pdf
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • Twenty-eight “heart-stopping [and] utterly beautiful” (Newsday) stories that locate moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “Her stories are like few others. One must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review A traveling salesperson during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fiancé she can’t quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude. To read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.
Alice Munro: Paradox and Parallel
Walter R. Martin
Author : Walter R. Martin
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0888641168
Alice Munro: Paradox and Parallel by Walter R. Martin Pdf
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.
Alice Munro's Late Style
Robert Thacker
Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270404
Alice Munro's Late Style by Robert Thacker Pdf
Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'. Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book focuses on Munro's art of recursion - an approach that has been evident throughout her career but came to the fore in her last three books, The View from Castle Rock (2006), Too Much Happiness (2009) and, especially, Dear Life (2012). This recursion and return manifest themselves not only in Munro's return to previously published pieces, but also to her discovery and meditations on her Scottish heritage, which can be read as entrance to her own understanding of herself and her life. Its provenance, displayed through archival evidence, is complex yet reveals a writer intent on a precise late style. Munro's final works serve as a coda to both her late style and to her entire career as arguably one of the finest short story writers ever to put pen to paper.
New Realism in Alice Munro’s Fiction
Li-Ping Geng
Author : Li-Ping Geng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000606911
New Realism in Alice Munro’s Fiction by Li-Ping Geng Pdf
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.
"A Study Guide for Alice Munro's ""The Bear Came Over the Mountain"""
Gale, Cengage
Author : Gale, Cengage
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780028665436
"A Study Guide for Alice Munro's ""The Bear Came Over the Mountain""" by Gale, Cengage Pdf
"A Study Guide for Alice Munro's ""The Bear Came Over the Mountain"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs."
The Progress of Love
Alice Munro
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307814562
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro Pdf
Eleven stunning stories that explore the most intimate and transforming moments of existence, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the foremost practitioners of the short story” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Throughout this remarkable collection moments of insight flash from the pages like lightning, not necessarily providing answers—more like showing the way to new questions.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents’ confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes to the shaken mother the fragility between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his hapless younger brother. A man brings his lover on a visit to his ex-wife, only to feel unexpectedly closer to his estranged partner. In these and other stories, Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.
Friend of My Youth
Alice Munro
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307814593
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro Pdf
A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Alice Munro
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307814579
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You by Alice Munro Pdf
A “masterful” (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception.”—Los Angeles Times The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, “a rich exploration of womanhood” (Ms.), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future. In her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that “one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”
Alice Munro's Best
Alice Munro
Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993935
Alice Munro's Best by Alice Munro Pdf
In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. . . . Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.” This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls her “devoted international readership.” Long-time fans of her stories will enjoy meeting old favourites, where their new setting in this book may reveal new sides to what once seemed a familiar story; devoted followers may even dispute the exclusion of a specially-beloved story. Readers lucky enough to have found her recently will be delighted, as one masterpiece succeeds another. The 17 stories are carefully arranged in the order in which she wrote them, which allows us to follow the development of her range. “A Wilderness Station,” for example, breaks “short story rules” by taking us right back to the 1830s then jumping forward more than 100 years. “The Albanian Virgin” destroys the idea that her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario’s “Alice Munro Country.” And “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” the story behind the film Away From Her, takes us far from the world of young girls learning about sex into unflinching old age. This is a book to read slowly, savouring each story. It deserves a place in every Canadian book-lover’s library.