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A paper which looks at a selection of Alice Munro's fiction, with particular reference to the conflict between protagonists which is expressed in her narratives and her emphasis on the personal and spiritual growth of her characters. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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family: although she was eligible for a scholarship to the University of Western Ontario, she abandoned her academic education in order to marry, raise a family, run a bookshop and
write. She has published one novel and several collections of short stories, and won several prestigious literary awards including the Governor Generals Literary Award and the Lannan Award. Although several
commentators see her work as being defined through her intimate knowledge of Ontario, in an interview with the Reading Group Centre (2003) she asserts that she sees a universality about
human experience which transcends cultural customs and geographical surroundings, and it is certainly the case that her works deal with universal themes of human behaviour.
Keegan (2003) points out that from one perspective, one could see Munros work as autobiographical -
he compares her, for instance, to Updike and mentions that taken as a totality, her work appears almost a one huge novel - but at the same time the way
in which she constructs her narratives makes them into a far more complex structure than simply a fictionalised account of her own life. Canitz (2003) notes that from a critical
perspective it is not always easy to analyse Munros work, since the layering of different narrative threads draws the reader into a complexity of structure which is often hard to
define, despite the apparent simplicity of the writing itself. McCue (2003) for example makes the point that one of Munros greatest skills is her ability to convey the subtle nuances
of a character or a situation with few words, and cites Friend of My Youth as one of the most salient examples of this. In Open Secrets she combines this
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