Munro’s first short story was published when she was 37, a college dropout squeezing in writing time around her children’s naps. By the time she was in her 60s, she had become one of the most celebrated short-story writers in the world. Throughout her long career, she hardly ever fa...
Munro's work is often compared with the great short story writers. In Munro stories, as in Chekhov's, plot is secondary and "little happens." As with Chekhov, Garan Holcombe notes: "All is based on the epiphanic moment, the sudden enlightenment, the concise, subtle, revelatory detail." ...
The short story has received renewed attention and notable popular acclaim in the twenty-first century. This book offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary women's short stories and introduces a new way of theorising feminism in the genre through the concept of 'the moment'. By considering ...
请用适当的词完成下面短文,并将所缺单词填在答题卡指定位置上,每个空只能填一个形式正确、意义相符的单词。 Alice Munro (爱丽丝·罗),a Canadian writer called “master of the contemporary short story”,1.the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013. ...
essay in particular that is described as “a grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster.” This could be a powerful short story to share with your students who are also grappling with climate change and the helplessness that comes with...
‘Visiting Hours’ inThe News from Dublin: New Irish Short Stories, ed. Joseph O’Connor (London: Faber, 2011). A comic story (in the voice of a midwife) about two forms of fatherhood, with a nod to the Gospel of Luke. ‘Dear Lang’ inHow Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of ...
Each volume profiles about six to eight novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative and nonfiction writers who are currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999. A biographical and critical introduction to each author prefaces a collection of reprinted critical essays...
t actually shared any of my writing in over three years. So, as a token of appreciation for all of those who have read my books and wonder if I am actually writing anything at all, I’ve decided to share part one and two of a short story series I’m writing during this stranger ...
7. Edwidge Danticat — Short Story Edwidge Danticat’s contemplated diaspora and the strange sensation of not belonging to any one country since 1994. As a Haitian-American author who immigrated to the United States when she was 12, Danticat writes about life in Haiti and America in equal par...
British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now In 2011 Clare Hemmings challenged feminist scholars to critique the stories we tell about the history of feminism.1 She argues that a complex array of feminist theory has been narratively smoothed into identifiable waves easily distingui.....