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This course will be dedicated to Alice Munro, winner, among many other prizes, of the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in 2009 and the Nobel Prize in 2013. Munro is the first Canadian and one of very few women to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature (which says more about the Swedish Academy than about women writers, of course). The Academy lauded her as the “master of the contemporary short story.” Let us explore Munro’s mastery as she creates Canadian small-town settings and characters of great psychological depth, and above all, let us appreciate her versatile style in a number of her stories. The course readings will be announced at the beginning of term.
Course requirements: Regular attendance, active participation, reading, oral and written assignments, graded term paper. |
