Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing' by Thacker, Robert
Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing' by Thacker, Robert

Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing'

Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the...
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Author: Robert Thacker
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Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing' by Thacker, Robert

Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing'

$517.71
Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing' by Thacker, Robert

Alice Munro's Late Style: 'Writing Is the Final Thing'

$517.71
Author: Robert Thacker
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Focusing on Alice Munro's last three collections, this book examines the differences between these volumes and the rest of her work to analyse the emergence and the difference of her 'late style'.
Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form. This book focuses on Munro's art of recursion - an approach that has been evident throughout her career but came to the fore in her last three books, The View from Castle Rock (2006), Too Much Happiness (2009) and, especially, Dear Life (2012). This recursion and return manifest themselves not only in Munro's return to previously published pieces, but also to her discovery and meditations on her Scottish heritage, which can be read as entrance to her own understanding of herself and her life. Its provenance, displayed through archival evidence, is complex yet reveals a writer intent on a precise late style.
Munro's final works serve as a coda to both her late style and to her entire career as arguably one of the finest short story writers ever to put pen to paper.



Author: Robert Thacker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 11/30/2023
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781350270381

About the Author
Robert Thacker is Charles A. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies and English Emeritus at St. Lawrence University, New York, USA. He has been working on 2013 Nobel Laureate Alice Munro since the mid-1970s and is now among the world's leading Munro critics. He is author of Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: A Biography (2005; updated 2011), written with Munro's cooperation, and Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 (2016; open access). He edited The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro (1999) and Alice Munro: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; Dear Life (2016) in Bloomsbury's Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction series.
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