Alice Munro
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 and ever-changing reality.
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Alice Munro
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 and ever-changing reality.
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Alice Munro

Alice Munro

by Ailsa Cox
Alice Munro

Alice Munro

by Ailsa Cox

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Overview

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 and ever-changing reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780746309926
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 12/01/2003
Series: Writers and Their Work
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 8.52(w) x 5.58(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Dr Ailsa Cox is Reader and Tutor in Creative Writing, Edge Hill University, Liverpool. In addition to teaching creative writing she has published short stories in several magazines and anthologies; she was co-editor of Metropolitan Magazine and a contributor to The Creative Writing Handbook.

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