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Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'. But her stories frequently turn on what has been left out; they are rife with unsent (unfinished) letters, with things people mean to, but do not, say or tell. Ajay Heble's study focuses on Munro's involvement with a 'discourse of absence' and suggests that our understanding of these texts often depends not only on what happens in the fiction, but also on what might have happened. Munro's st

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Author

Heble, Ajay

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442613065

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25