ENGLISH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Alice Munro, The New Yorker, Karakul Sheep
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Essay questions and short response will be up on monday-> look at it for. Wednesdays class so you can formulate ideas for wednesdays class. Most schoolbook author-> she"s been around the longest. She was born near lake huron in 1931-> (cid:498)munro country(cid:499) The quality of her work-> she is the most likely canadian author who will be still being read 100 years from now. Her stories have been adapted into movies and she has been on t. v. Small town, countryside feel-> like in her stories. She took literature and found a good husband. Her scholarship ended after 2 years and she left and found a husband. When she was 37 she wrote and published her first book. She had three children-> and her potential to write and be published was delayed because she was a wife and mother. They opened up a bookstore (cid:498)munro books(cid:499) in victoria. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father farmed animals for wool.