LibGuides: English: Dance of the Happy Shades Alice Munro 2025

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Dance of the Happy Shades Litcharts
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Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro – a place familiar but lost
This article was published in the Guardian 13 August 2015. My grandmother also came from small-town Ontario, and my memories chime with Munro’s tales of passionate girls and women with stifled passions.
Writers on Munro
An article from The New Yorker October 10, 2013. Writers reflect on the impact and writing style of Alice Munro.
Alice Munro: Riches of a double life
Published by Aida Edemariam on 4 Oct 2003 this article explores the influence of Alice Munro's life on the development of her writing style.
Revisiting the Deep Sense of Place in Alice Munro’s Debut, 50 Years Later
You need to start a free trial in order to read this article. From an article in The Atlantic January 4 2019.
Dance of the Happy Shades introduces young, female protagonists confronting expectations as firmly rooted as the rural landscape in which they live. By Jonathan Liebson

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Some stories have to be told by me: a literary history of Alice Munro
Article by Marcela Valdes published in the Virginia Quarterly Review , Summer 2006, Volume 82 Number 3. Pages 82 - 90.
A madman loose in the world: the vision of Alice Munro
Article by Rae McCarthy Macdonald. Published in Modern Fiction Studies. Autumn, 1976, Volume 22 Number 3. Pages 365 - 374.
The fiction of Alice Munro by Hallvard Dahlie
Published in 1978 in the journal Ploughshares volume 4 number 3, pages 56 - 71