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Five books published in fourteen years have firmly established Alice Munro among Canada's best writers of prose fiction. Her form is the short story, and her material is largely the experience of a gi...
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Critical Essay by Frederick Busch
Alice Munro … writes stories you have to call "well-made."… They are journeymen's work. But they are no more than that, and by now ...
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Critical Essay by Hallvard Dahlie
[Alice Munro is] a writer who has quietly and firmly established herself over the past decade. In a very real sense, she occupies [two] fictional worlds: her fiction ...
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Critical Essay by Brandon Conron
[Alice Munro's writing] captures the flavour and mood of rural Ontario…. During an interview in 1971, after acknowledging Eudora Welty as probably her fa...
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Critical Essay by Julia O'faolain
Deft with social detail, [Alice Munro] anchors her people firmly to class and place and commands the classic realist's strengths: moral seriousness, com...
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Critical Essay by Jack Beatty
In The Beggar Maid the impressive Canadian writer Alice Munro has combined the form of the short story with the narrative interest of the novel to provide an unusual kind...
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Critical Essay by Ted Morgan
In the work of Alice Munro, whose volume of related short stories [The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose is] of a high standard, the material seems [close] to the autho...
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Critical Essay by Joyce Carol Oates
Alice Munro's heroine Rose, though said to be a successful and even "famous" Canadian television actress, returns again and again in her imagin...
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Critical Essay by Thomas R. Edwards
Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid is a history not of endless love but of many loves that ended too soon. Here ten connected stories follow the early and middle ...
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Critical Essay by William B. Stone
Not the least of the achievements of this remarkably satisfying collection [The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose] may be the original use of a form which, by ana...
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In the following essay, Hoy discusses the paradoxical elements of Munro's fiction.
Royal Beating. That was Flo's promise. You are going to get one Royal Beating.
The word Royal lolled o...
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In the following essay, Mayberry explores "the relationship between truth and narrative, between knowing and telling" within Munro's stories and characters.
Storytelling is the ce...
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Humphreys is an American novelist whose book on the disintegration of family life, Dreams of Sleep, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Prize in 1985. In the following review, she praises Open Secrets a...
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In the following essay, Munro explains how she writes and how reality figures into her work.
Whenever people get an opportunity to ask me questions about my writing, I can be sure that some of the que...
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York is a Canadian educator and critic. In the following essay, she discusses the postmodernist elements of Munro's fiction and relates how her work incorporates several theories of photography...
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Woodcock was a Canadian educator, editor, author, and critic. In the following essay, he explores realism in Munro's writing, particularly as it relates to her younger female characters.
But t...
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In the following excerpt from a longer essay discussing several writers, Jansen analyzes the roles of male characters and the theme of loneliness in Munro's fiction, especially in the story &#x...
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Alice Munro
Critical Essay by Frederick Busch
