| Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 Contributor(s): Thacker, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1552388395 ISBN-13: 9781552388396 Publisher: University of Calgary Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Short Stories - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2016296605 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thacker, Robert: - 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). |