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Meneseteung | Criticism

Munro’s Use of External Elements
Poquette has a bachelor’s degree in English and specializes in writing about literature. In the following essay, Poquette discusses Munro’s use of external elements to enhance the narrative impact of ‘‘Meneseteung.’’
The Narrative Use of Stereotype in Meneseteung
Remy is a freelance writer in Pensacola, Florida. In the following essay, Remy examines the narrative use of stereotype in ‘‘Meneseteung.’’
Rewriting the Frontier: Wilderness and Social Code in the Fiction of Alice Munro
In the following essay excerpt, Smith suggests that for Munro’s female protagonist Almeda the wilderness is less dangerous than the human maledominated garrison.
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Friend of My Youth
In the following essay excerpt, Howells argues that Munro reconstructs a member of the Canadian female literary tradition with Almeda, a poet who escapes from the confines of what society expects of her into the ‘‘the wilderness space of her imagination.’’
The Woman Out Back: Alice Munro’s Meneseteung
In the following essay, McCarthy contends that Almeda chooses ‘‘marginality, rather than having it imposed upon her by the Victorian patriarchy.’’

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