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In this chapter, Héliane Ventura, who has published numerous studies on Alice Munro and other Canadian authors: books, articles, edited volumes and guest-edited journals, including her most recent companion to Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades (2015), explores a theoretical perspective whose applicability to teaching literature is undeniable. The relational method which Héliane Ventura employs in her reading of selected stories—Munro’s earliest and latest narratives—allows her to prove that rather than merely opening the door to rural Ontario, Munro’s fiction throws wide open the gates of world literature, inviting comparison with the works of William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, or James Agee.
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Ventura, H. (2016). The Question of Sources: Teaching Texts Versus Hypotexts. In: Buchholtz, M. (eds) Alice Munro. Second Language Learning and Teaching(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24061-9_10
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