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This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics David Staines has put together a comprehensive exploratory account of Munro s biography her position as a feminist her evocation of life in small-town Ontario her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories and her artistic achievement. Considering a wide range of topics - including Munro s style life writing her personal development and her use of Greek myths Celtic ballads Norse sagas and popular songs - this volume will appeal to keen readers of Munro s fiction as well as students and scholars of literature and Canadian and gender studies.
Editions of The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107093270
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781107472020
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This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics David Staines has put together a comprehensive exploratory account of Munro s biography her position as a feminist her evocation of life in small-town Ontario her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories and her artistic achievement. Considering a wide range of topics - including Munro s style life writing her personal development and her use of Greek myths Celtic ballads Norse sagas and popular songs - this volume will appeal to keen readers of Munro s fiction as well as students and scholars of literature and Canadian and gender studies.
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What is The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro about?
This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics David Staines has put together a comprehensive exploratory account of Munro s biography her position as a feminist her evocation of life in small-town Ontario her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories and her artistic achievement. Considering a wide range of topics - including Munro s style life writing her personal development and her use of Greek myths Celtic ballads Norse sagas and popular songs - this volume will appeal to keen readers of Munro s fiction as well as students and scholars of literature and Canadian and gender studies.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro?
David Staines
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The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107093270) and paperback(ISBN 9781107472020)