The extremely private literary giant’
Alice Munro’s poetics of humility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ailsa Cox (0000-0002-2110-7996, Edge Hill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-227 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-0701 • E-ISSN: 2043-071X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/fict_00028_1 |
| OpenAlex | W3133728532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
When the Nobel Prize committee awarded the laureateship to Alice Munro in October 2013, someone or something called ‘Alice Munro’ was immediately placed under a media spotlight. She had, over the years, accrued what Lorraine York has called ‘reluctant celebrity’, regularly gathering literary prizes, but making relatively few personal appearances. In the first decade of the twenty-first century she had become more visible in public whilst still retaining a degree of ambivalence. This ambivalence was evident in the brief interviews she gave in the weeks after the announcement, following which she returned to her private life and the retirement from writing that she had already announced. This article combines an interrogation of Munro’s humble public persona with an investigation into her poetics of short fiction, referring to her published texts and interviews. It concludes with some personal reflections on writing about a living author at the end of her career
Alice (programming language · Ambivalence · Art · Art history · Humanities · Humility · Literature · Media studies · Persona · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Private life · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |