Alice Munro in the Light of Literary Criticism
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Psychological approach, women’s psychology, interrelation of family problems, complexity of human conflictAbstract
The article deals with literature as well as the formulation of general methodological or aesthetic principles for the examination of such works is called as Literary Criticism. From the earliest days of literary history, criticism has been a major aspect of literary theory and practice . Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of novellas, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time . Alice Munro focuses on the inner conflicts of the married women in her three selected novellas from her collection ‘Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage’.
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