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Description for Alice Munro
Paperback. Series: Writers & Their Work S. Num Pages: 123 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Alice Munro's standing as a major contemporary author has long been acknowledged in her native Canada, especially among her fellow writers. Her reputation developed slowly, from small magazines and radio in the fifties, to three Governor General's Awards and regular appearances in The New Yorker. As a short story writer she is working within a critically neglected genre. Yet short fiction displays an intensity of language and experience that is rarely sustainable across longer forms. Drawing on Bakhtinian theory, Ailsa Cox looks at ways in which Munro develops the short story's affinity with the present moment to suggest a fluid ... Read more
Alice Munro's standing as a major contemporary author has long been acknowledged in her native Canada, especially among her fellow writers. Her reputation developed slowly, from small magazines and radio in the fifties, to three Governor General's Awards and regular appearances in The New Yorker. As a short story writer she is working within a critically neglected genre. Yet short fiction displays an intensity of language and experience that is rarely sustainable across longer forms. Drawing on Bakhtinian theory, Ailsa Cox looks at ways in which Munro develops the short story's affinity with the present moment to suggest a fluid ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Writers & Their Work
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746309926
SKU
V9780746309926
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