Stories By Nobel Laureate Alice Munro (H900)

H – Literature

Discussion of the art and thematic preoccupations of the Canadian short story master Alice Munro in five challenging tales: Family Furnishings, The Bear Came Over the Mountain, Chance, Soon, and Silence. Attendees should have read and mulled the first story listed above by the first meeting of class so we can start a dialogue when we gather. I look forward to hearing the range of reactions her work elicits.

This offering meets for a total of 4 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: William Zak

ZAK, WILLIAM–Ph.D., English literature, University of Michigan; M.A., Lehigh University; B.A., Boston College. Retired from a 30-year teaching career in the Department of English of Salisbury University. Author of several books on Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, Greek tragedy, and, most recently, a study of Robert Frost’s major poetry, published in 2022 by Lexington Books.

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