Alice Munro sau redefinirea feminităţii în termeni de „convenţional” şi „neconvenţional”

Alice Munro has gained her status as an established writer owing to her short stories, which also brought her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. Her prose is an example of how ordinary life can turn extraordinary, thanks to the writing manner of a resolute writer. The present study analyses the contexts that distinguish her heroines from one another – aspects of feminine maturity, social and family status –, at the same time dealing mostly with their common pattern, namely their reaction to love studied in the most honest form possible. This is, therefore, a study of sociology and phenomenology of love, focused on four of Munro’s volumes: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage(2001), Runaway (2004), Too Much Happiness (2009), Dear Life (2012)