Alice Munro
Standard Name: Munro, Alice
Birth Name: Alice Ann Laidlaw
AM
, a Canadian writer of the later twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is widely regarded as one of the leading modern practitioners of the short story form. One of her collections is alternatively titled a novel. Her work embodies a quiet, even understated, but inescapable feminism.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Helen Craik | She was a Scotswoman of the gentry class. The village named Craik is some fifty miles from Arbigland. Canadian novelist Alice Munro
, describes the village as it was a generation or two before HC |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Laurence | Among her fellow writers ML
enjoyed a long and close friendship with Adele Wiseman
. She also became a friend of the younger Alice Munro
, who championed her in the censorship affair. |
Friends, Associates | Carol Shields | CS
, who had said that in the 1960s she knew no writers, became a personal friend of her fellow author Alice Munro
, who called her (according to Margaret Atwood
) just a luminous person. Atwood, Margaret. “To the light house”. The Guardian, p. 28. 28 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charles Dickens | A Child's History of England, which appeared in Household Words between 25 January 1851 and 10 December , was an early influence on the child who became Alice Munro
. “From the Archives: Alice Munro and Diana Athill in Conversation”. PEN Canada. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isak Dinesen | Critic Sara Stambaugh
writes that many of the stories in [this volume] are formulated so cryptically as to be opaque without the help offered by the later work. Stambaugh, Sara. The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen. UMI Research Press, 1988. 3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Porter | Fifty years after its publication, Ann Taylor Gilbert
still used The Scottish Chiefs as a measure of a book which had really absorbed her. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Gilbert, JosiahEditor , H. S. King, 1874. 2: 278 |
Literary responses | Katherine Mansfield | More recently, writers citing Mansfield's importance to them have included Brigid Brophy
, Angus Wilson
, and Canadian Alice Munro
. Janice Kulyk Keefer
's Thieves: A Novel of Katherine Mansfield, 2004, presents a... |
Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | The excitement generated by The Equations of Love has not carried into current criticism. However, Alice Munro
has always held EW
in extremely high esteem, delighting in her writing style with its hard clear prose... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jolley | |
Textual Production | Claire Luckham | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Diana Athill | Nicholas Lezard
wrote in the Guardian that this book teaches, in every line[,] the consolations of age, the common, shareable tone of experience. Athill begins the book, in fact, with her own old age, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Atwood | She looks at what she calls the Grey Owl
Syndrome—the envy and appropriation by white writers of native identity; at the web of stories surrounding the last expedition of Sir John Franklin
; and... |
Timeline
14 November 2004
Following the award of the Giller Prize to Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro
, the New York Times Book Review called her one of the most important living writers, worthy to receive the Nobel Prize...