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This chapter is devoted to a comparative study of Del Jordan, the protagonist of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women (Penguin Books, Toronto, 1971) and her cinematic equivalent in the film adaptation released in 1994 (Ronald Wilson, Lives of Girls and Women, Paragon Entertainment Corporation). In both Munro’s short-story cycle (or novel, as some prefer to view it) and its film adaptation, the heroine tries to become a writer. Emilia Leszczyńska studies crucial elements of this evolution: people, relations, and events in Del’s live that lead to the epiphany which wakes up her creativity.
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Leszczyńska, E. (2016). Del Jordan: Becoming a Writer. In: Buchholtz, M. (eds) Alice Munro. Second Language Learning and Teaching(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24061-9_7
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