J. R. (Tim) Struthers, Ailsa Cox, Corinne Bigot, and Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2024)

In June 2013, before the announcement on October 10 that same year that Alice Munro was laureate of the Nobel Prize for literature, the critic Christian Lorentzen published a contentious article in the London Review of Books. In it, he stated his confusion about the “consensus around Alice Munro,”...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse,
Autor principal: Lorre, Christine
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Journal of the Short Story in English 2025
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:In June 2013, before the announcement on October 10 that same year that Alice Munro was laureate of the Nobel Prize for literature, the critic Christian Lorentzen published a contentious article in the London Review of Books. In it, he stated his confusion about the “consensus around Alice Munro,” which consists in “instructing us in ways of seeing as virtues the many things about her writing that might be considered shortcomings.” These, to Lorentzen, include Munro’s conventionality, the pr...