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Alice Munro

Understanding, Adapting and Teaching

  • Offers incisive new readings of fiction by Alice Munro, 2013 Nobel Prize winner
  • Addresses issues, such as film adaptation and teaching of Alice Munro, which are absent in currently available publications
  • Neatly and logically structured and avoiding academic jargon
  • Addressed to a large audience of both teachers and students, of readers representing a number of fields: not only literature, but also media and education
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

Part of the book sub series: Issues in Literature and Culture (ILC)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Reading and Interviewing of Alice Munro

    • Mirosława Buchholtz
    Pages 1-9
  3. Teaching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
    2. Teaching Alice Munro in Canada

      • David Staines
      Pages 123-124
    3. Alice Munro in Japan and Germany: Interviews

      • Keiko Beppu, Anca-Raluca Radu
      Pages 125-130
    4. Teaching Alice Munro in Poland: Interviews

      • Agnieszka Salska, Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich
      Pages 131-139

About this book

The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two other ways of looking at her fiction: the perspectives of film adaptation and of pedagogy. The book is divided into three parts which mirror the key words in the title: understanding, adapting and teaching. Part One consists of four articles on various aspects of Munro's short fiction from a literary perspective. Part Two - four essays - addresses editing and film adaptations of Munro's stories (both television and feature films). Part Three consists of an essay on didactic aspects of Munro's fiction and of several interviews with teachers of Canadian literature who have included stories by Munro in their syllabi.

Editors and Affiliations

  • English Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

    Mirosława Buchholtz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Alice Munro

  • Book Subtitle: Understanding, Adapting and Teaching

  • Editors: Mirosława Buchholtz

  • Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24061-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24059-6Published: 20 January 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24061-9Published: 20 January 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2193-7648

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 161

  • Topics: Language Education, Creativity and Arts Education

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eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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