A 1912 copy of Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Library and Archives Canada, IMG_5945, CC BY-NC-NC 2.0, via Flickr.
Learn all about the short story by reading “An Introduction to the Short Story in Canada: Reading Alice Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are?“, written by Nadine Fladd:
This chapter introduces the short story as a literary genre, and discusses the short story cycle as a particularly important genre in Canada. It offers some suggestions for analyzing short stories from print culture and feminist perspectives, and it turns to Alice Munro’s 1978 short story cycle Who Do You Think You Are? as a case study in putting these perspectives to work.
Read “An Introduction to the Short Story in Canada: Reading Alice Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are?“
CanLit Guides, created and maintained by Canadian Literature, is a open-access collection of learning materials on different topics in the field of Canadian literature. The CanLit Guides 2018 Collection is the result of collaboration between experts in the field and our editorial team. The chapters here cover a range of topics, time periods, and genres, and show the dynamic ways scholars are engaging with literatures in Canada today.