Munro, Alice (Vol. 95) - Lorraine M. York (essay date 1983)
Lorraine M. York (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "'The Other Side of Dailiness': The Paradox of Photography in Alice Munro's Fiction," in Studies in Canadian Literature, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1983, pp. 49-60.
[York is a Canadian educator and critic. In the following essay, she discusses the postmodernist elements of Munro's fiction and relates how her work incorporates several theories of photography.]
But o, photography! as no art is,
Faithful and disappointing! that records
Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,
And will not censor blemishes
Like washing-lines and Hall's Distemper Boards …
—Philip Larkin, "Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album"
In various writings and interviews, Alice Munro has often expressed interest in photography and photographic...
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