English 333 - SEM:MAJOR BRIT OR AMER WRITER

Alice Munro has won extraordinary and steadily growing recognition as one of the very finest and canniest writers of our time. The subtlety of her narrative skills and the subdued brilliance of her moral insights mark her as a major figure. And yet this has not translated into the kind of attention one might expect in college and university curricula, although this is likely to change with the recognition following on her winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2013). Certainly there are challenges for both student and teacher in tracing out the arc of her achievement, beginning with the early "Dance of the Happy Shades" to her most recent work. But this tracing provides an opportunity to follow Munro "writing her lives"-in all their narrative sublimity. Prerequisites: Three literature courses, including one American literature course and one upper-level course in fiction.

Topic: Alice Munro. Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores