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The Body of Shame: Women’s Embodied Shame in the Short Fiction of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore Cover

The Body of Shame: Women’s Embodied Shame in the Short Fiction of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore

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|Jul 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2025-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2067-5712 | Journal ISSN: 1583-6401
Language: English
Page range: 8 - 37
Published on: Jul 30, 2025
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