Nov 22, 2008

Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose [Who Do You Think You are?] | Literary Precedents

Most critics consider The Beggar Maid to be an important addition to the catalogue of exceptional story cycles produced by Canadian writers since 1896, when Duncan Campbell Scott's In the Village of Viger established the cycle form in Canada; indeed, one critic has suggested that since Scott's book the cycle has become "something of a subgenre" within Canadian literature. With its formal and thematic emphasis on the interdependence of its constituent stories, Munro's book shows a formal and general thematic relationship with such notable Canadian works as Stephen Leacock's...