Criticism

Baum, Rosalie Murphy. "Artist and Woman: Young Lives in Laurence and Munro." North Dakota Quarterly 52, No. 3 (Summer 1984): 196-211.

Compares Munro's Lives of Girls and Women to Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House, both portrayals of a young female artist's coming of age.

Boston, Anne. "Hidden Reasons." New Statesmen and Society 3, No. 1233 (19 October 1990): 32-3.

Lauds Friend of My Youth as a "small masterpiece."

Boyce, Plenke, and Smith, Ron. "A National Treasure." Meanjin 54, No. 2 (1995): 222-32.

Interview in which Munro discusses the purpose of her fiction.

Carrington, Ildikó de Papp. "What's in a Title: Alice Munro's 'Carried Away'." Studies in Short Fiction 30, No. 4 (Fall 1993): 555-64.

Explores how the title "Carried Away" reflects the story's structure and action.

DeMott, Benjamin. "Domestic Stories." The New York Times Book Review (20 March 1983): 1, 26.

Praises The Moons of Jupiter for its sympathetic female characters, its structure, and its craft.

Fowler, Rowena. "The Art of Alice Munro: The Beggar Maid and Lives of Girls and Women." Critique 25, No. 4 (Summer 1984): 189-98.

Compares the heroines of The Beggar Maid and Lives of Women and Children and discusses Munro's writing process.

Gorjup, Branko. Review of Open Secrets, by Alice Munro. World Literature Today 69, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 363.

Brief, laudatory review of Open Secrets.

Harris, Gale, "Radiant, Vanishing, Consolations." Belles Lettres 10, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 10, 14.

Positive review of Open Secrets.

Haviland, Beverly. "Missed Connections," Partisan Review LVI, No. 1 (Winter 1989): 151-57.

Favorable review of The Progress of Love.

Houston, Pam. "A Hopeful Sign: The Making of Metonymic Meaning in Munro's 'Menesetung.'" North Dakota Quarterly 52, No. 3 (Fall 1992): 79-92.

Uses Munro's short story "Menesetung" as a basis for a discussion of metaphor versus metonymy.

Hoy, Helen. "'Rose and Janet,' Alice Munro's Metafiction." Canadian Literature, No. 121 (Summer 1989): 59-83.

Detailed discourse on the evolution and publishing history of the book that became Who Do You Think You Are?

Kakutani, Michiko. "Love, Found and Lost, Amid Sharp Turns of Fate." The New York Times (6 September 1994): C17.

Compares Munro's Lives of Girls and Women to Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House.

O'Faolain, Julia. "In the Territory of Dreams." The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4776 (14 October 1994): 24.

Laudatory review of Open Secrets.

Smythe, Karen. "Sad Stories: The Ethics of Epiphany in Munrovian Elegy." The University of Toronto Quarterly 60, No. 4 (Summer 1991): 493-506.

Essay explores the meanings of melancholy and realism in Munro's fiction.

Solotaroff, Ted. "Life Stories." The Nation 237, No. 18 (28 November 1994): 665-68.

Proposes that Open Secrets is an example of "maximalist" fiction.

Thomas, Sue. "Reading Female Sexual Desire in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women." Critique XXXVI, No. 2 (Winter 1995): 106-20.

Feminist discussion of Del's sexuality in Lives of Girls and Women.

Warkwick, Susan J. "Growing Up: The Novels of Alice Munro." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 29 (Summer 1984): 204-25.

Discusses issues of communication and maturation in respect to Del in Lives of Girls and Women and Rose in Who Do You Think You Are?

Weinhouse, Linda. "Alice Munro: Hard-Luck Stories or There Is No Sexual Relation." Critique XXXVI, No. 2 (Winter 1995): 121-29.

Analyzes "Hard Luck Stories" in terms of the theories of Jacques Lacan.

Woodcock, George. "The Rival Bards." Canadian Literature No. 112 (Spring 1987): 211-16.

Detailed review of Lives of Girls and Women, comparing it to Victorian poetry.

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Positive review of Open Secrets.