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In her review of O pen S ecrets, in the New Republic, Wendy Lesser acknowledges that a piece such as “A Wilderness Station” represents “the kind of serious, exploratory work [Munro] is doing at its highest level,” but she is of the opinion that the stories generally lack “the intense visceral solidity of most of [her] earlier work.” She is disappointed with the title story, which she deems to be “a pale evocation of all the usual Munro elements,” and is also critical of “An Albanian Virgin,” labeling it “definitely the weirdest story in the book [and] unlikely to win the heart of the true Munro fan.”1
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Wendy Lesser, “The Munro Doctrine,” New Republic (October 1994): 51–53.
Pleuke Boyce and Ron Smith, “A National Treasure: Interview with Alice Munro,” Meanjin 54 (1995): 222–32.
Andrew Hiscock, “‘Longing for a Human Climate’: Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth and the Culture of Loss,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 32 (1997): 30.
Judith Maclean Miller, “Deconstructing Silence: The Mystery of Alice Munro,” Antigonish Review 129 (Spring 2002): 43–52.
Ildiko de Papp Carrington, “Talking Dirty: Alice Munro’s ‘Open Secrets’ and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men”s Studies in Short Fiction 31 (1994): 595–606.
Robert Thacker, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2005), 453.
Val Ross, “A Writer Called Alice,” Globe and Mail (October 1, 1994): C1.
Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998). Further references to the collection are included in the text.
Alice Munro, “Contributors’ Notes,” in The Best American Short Stories 1999, ed. Amy Tan with Katrina Kenison (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), 387–88.
Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartnik. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (London: Longman, 1985), 202.
Ildikó de Papp Carrington, “Where Are You, Mother? Alice Munro’s ‘Save the Reaper,’” Canadian Literature 173 (Summer 2002): 34–51.
Georges Roque, “Graphic Presentation as Expressive Device,” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan (London: Routledge, 2005), 209–10.
Gillian Brown and George Yule, Discourse Analysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 95–97.
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Duncan, I. (2011). The “Queer Bright Moment”. In: Alice Munro’s Narrative Art. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137000682_5
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