Alice Munro: Writing for Dear Life. Introduction
In announcing the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Alice Munro in Stockholm on October 10th 2013, the Nobel Committee noted that Alice Munro’s “texts often feature depictions of everyday but decisive events, epiphanies of a kind, that illuminate the surrounding story and let existentia...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | In announcing the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Alice Munro in Stockholm on October 10th 2013, the Nobel Committee noted that Alice Munro’s “texts often feature depictions of everyday but decisive events, epiphanies of a kind, that illuminate the surrounding story and let existential questions appear in a flash of lightning” (“bio-bibliography” np). As examples of such everyday life events, one may point out that Alice Munro’s characters are depicted making, and mending cloth... |
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