Alice Munro | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 20 pages of analysis & critique of Alice Munro.

Alice Munro | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 20 pages of analysis & critique of Alice Munro.
This section contains 5,945 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Helen Hoy

SOURCE: "'Dull, Simple, Amazing and Unfathomable': Paradox and Double Vision in Alice Munro's Fiction," in Studies in Canadian Literature, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring, 1980, pp. 100-15.

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 on Flo's tongue, took on trappings. Rose had a need to picture things, to pursue absurdities, that was stronger than the need to stay out of trouble, and instead of taking this threat to heart she pondered: how is a beating royal?

In this delight in language and exuberant pursuit of absurdities despite ensuing complications, Rose reveals herself, in Alice Munro's latest work Who Do You Think You Are?, to be very much a child of the author herself. Munro's own sensitivity to individual words and images, her spare lucid style, and command of...

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