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Articles

Volume 07, Number 2 (1982)

The Strange and the Familiar in Alice Munro

  • W. R. Martin
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1982-06-06

Abstract

The stories of Alice Munro illuminate and enrich both the strange and the familiar. Paradoxes and contradictions are brought together to illuminate the complex wholeness of existence; this is the thematic motivator of, for example, Lives of Girls and Women. When the contradictions are reconciled, Munro's stories achieve a resolution that can be seen as a type of social and existential vision.