Alice Munro and ‘Alternate Realities’

The critical discussion of Alice Munro’s short stories began under the heading of realism but has moved on to recognize her combination of the ordinary with the amazing. This has continued to move towards the exploration of ‘alternate realities’ in human life which may lead to double or multiple liv...

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Published inZeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 429 - 443
Main Author Kluge, Walter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Leipzig De Gruyter 20.12.2017
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subjects
Canadian literature
Literary criticism
Munro, Alice
Short stories
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Summary:The critical discussion of Alice Munro’s short stories began under the heading of realism but has moved on to recognize her combination of the ordinary with the amazing. This has continued to move towards the exploration of ‘alternate realities’ in human life which may lead to double or multiple lives of originally single characters in the same story. This division does not happen in Gothic fantasy but in Munro’s ordinary and commonplace (fictional) reality.
ISSN:0044-2305
2196-4726
DOI:10.1515/zaa-2017-0039