Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose are two literary works that hardly fit into one single literary category. Critics of all quarters are at one and of the same mind as to the slippery and elusive nature of Alice’s art. However, despite being approached by […]
The Uses and the Limits of the Short Story: The Function of Character Migration in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women
This article explores the phenomenon of character migration in one of Alice Munro’s early works, Lives of Girls and Women from 1971. Munro vitally maintains the typical structure of the modern Anglo-American short story, with its tendency toward condensation and building toward its ending, as well as the form’s thematic principle of the epiphany concept. But she […]