ALICE MUNRO by Howells, Coral Ann ISBN 0719045592
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This study of the work of Alice Munro explores the appeal of her fictions of small-town Canada with their precise attention to social surfaces and their fascination with local gossip and scandal.
This is a world of open secrets, and Howells highlights Munro's distinctive storytelling methods which combine the familiar and the unfamiliar, slipping between realism and fantasy to make visible what is usually hidden within everday life. These are women's narratives, full of silent female knowledge - of female bodies, love stories and romantic fantasies as well as female casualties. Munro takes up the traditional subjects of women's fiction through her stories' significantly female plots, stories of entrapment and escape attempts, where secrecy and silence become strategies of resistance. Munro's enthusiasm for the work of other women writers, from Emily Bronte and L. M. Montgomery to Eudora Welty, is emphasised as Munro continues to experiment with the short story form, creating worlds which are both 'touchable and mysterious'.
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[edit] Title
ALICE MUNRO
[edit] Author
Howells, Coral Ann
[edit] ISBN
0719045592
[edit] Published
06/08/1998
[edit] Publisher
Manchester University Press
[edit] Binding
paperback (B format)
[edit] Retail Price
9.99 (GBP)
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9.99 (GBP)
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