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Volume : II, Issue : XII, January - 2013 ALICE MUNRO'S 'LIVES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN:' A DEVIATION FROM CONVENTIONAL CANADIAN SHORT STORY SHARMILA KULKARNI Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Short story emerged as the most popular form of literature in late 20th century
and Canadian women writers – Mavis Gallant, Margaret Atwood. Margaret Lawrence
and Alice Munro are amongst the most esteemed short story writers of the world. Alice
Munro has exclusively dealt with the short story form and with her 14 short story
collections published from 1967 to 2012, numerous awards and accolades for her
splendid craftsmanship of storytelling; she is hailed as the finest living short story writer
of the extant era. The present paper attempts to study Lives of Girls and Women, a short
story collection by Alice Munro as a deviation from the conventional Canadian short
story with respect to theme and narrative art. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : SHARMILA KULKARNI, (2013). ALICE MUNRO'S 'LIVES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN:' A DEVIATION FROM CONVENTIONAL CANADIAN SHORT STORY. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. XII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1836.pdf References : - Atwood,Margaret. Introduction. The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. Oxford Uni.Press,Toronto,1986
- Godard, Barbara. “Heirs of Living Body: Alice Munro and the Question of Female Aesthetic.” Canadian Literature Perspective. Ed. Jameela Begum. MacMillan London, 1994. 65-94.
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