Lecture: Entering the World of Alice Munro
13:00
In this class I look at how Alice Munro leads readers into fictional worlds. I consider her first sentences and reflect on style and variety in her stories, especially in light of the claim that there is a distinct style to her prose. An examination of her first sentences leads to at least one conclusion: for all their stylistic diversity, Munro’s lead-off sentences tend to establish a tension between what is realistic and tangible and what is seeming, what lies beneath or hidden.