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Dear life
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ISBN: 9780701187842 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus,


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Introducing Alice Munro's lives of girls and women.
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ISBN: 1550221221 Year: 1990 Volume: 8 Publisher: Toronto ECW Press

Alice Munro : a double life.
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ISBN: 1550221531 9781550221534 Year: 1992 Publisher: Toronto : ECW press,


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Alice Munro
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ISBN: 9781604135879 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism,

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Through the years, this Canadian writer has emerged as a master of the short story. The compressed and encapsulated energies of the form allow Alice Munro to peel away at the smooth and mundane surfaces that contain her characters' lives to reveal harsher truths within. This acclaimed writer is profiled for the first time in this indispensable series through full-length critical essays that plumb the depths of her rich, fictive worlds. In this work, a chronology of her life, a bibliography of Munro's work, and an index provide valuable information for student researchers.

Reading in : Alice Munro's archives
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ISBN: 1280925248 9786610925247 0889209480 0585469520 9780585469522 9780889203365 0889203369 9781280925245 9780889209480 6610925240 Year: 2002 Publisher: [Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

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What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer's archive? Collections of authors' manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published text. JoAnn McCaig sets out to show how archival materials can also provide fascinating insights into the business of culture, reveal the individuals, institutions, and ideologies that shape the author and her work, and describe the negotiations that occur between an author and the cultural marketplace. Using a feminist cultural studies approach, JoAnn McCaig ""reads in"" to the

The Tumble of Reason
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ISBN: 1442613068 0802006175 9786612003066 1282003062 1442682477 9781442682474 9781282003064 9780802006172 Year: 1994 Publisher: Toronto

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Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'. But her stories frequently turn on what has been left out; they are rife with unsent (unfinished) letters, with things people mean to, but do not, say or tell. Ajay Heble's study focuses on Munro's involvement with a 'discourse of absence' and suggests that our understanding of these texts often depends not only on what happens in the fiction, but also on what might have happened. Munro's stories confer their meaning not simply by referring to an outer reality, but also by bestowing upon the reader a stimulating wealth of possibilities taken from what we might call a potential or absent level of meaning. Characteristically, they articulate an unresolvable tension between variants on these positions: between, on the one hand, her delineation of a surface reality -- a world 'out there' which we are invited to recognize as real and true -- and, on the other, her involvement with a discourse of absence that challenges the very conventions within which her fiction operates. Drawing on structuralist and post-structuralist theories of language and its relation to meaning, knowledge, and systems of power, and on theories of postmodernist fiction, Heble offers both a careful reading of Munro's stories and a theoretical framework for reading meanings in absence. His book extends recent revisionist analysis and makes a valuable and original contribution to the criticism on Munro.

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