Sweet Dissonance in Alice Munro’s “The Progress of Love,” “Friend of My Youth,” and “Free Radicals”
The grammatical characteristics of the introductory passages of Alice Munro’s short stories set the tone and give the reader vital clues to which they must be attuned in order to discover how the story coheres. The seeming dissonance that marks the developments and resolution of her stories is, in f...
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| Published in: | Commonwealth (Rodez, France) France), 2015-04, Vol.37 (2), p.45-55 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | The grammatical characteristics of the introductory passages of Alice Munro’s short stories set the tone and give the reader vital clues to which they must be attuned in order to discover how the story coheres. The seeming dissonance that marks the developments and resolution of her stories is, in fact, like a minor chord containing most of the notes, some of the chords, and echoing the jagged poignancy found in her beginnings. |
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| ISSN: | 2270-0633 0395-6989 2534-6695 |