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Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction: A Book with Maps in It /

New essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography to devote attention to the ""regional"" settings of Munro's stories and how they affect her characters' development or stasis.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lorre-Johnston, Christine
Otros Autores: Rao, Eleonora
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Boydell and Brewer : Boydell & Brewer, 2018.
Colección:European studies in North American literature and culture
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Conceptualizing Space and Place: Houses, Landscapes, Territory; 1: Where Do You Think You Are? Alice Munro's Open Houses; 2: "Whose House Is That?" Spaces of Metamorphosis in Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades, Who Do You Think You Are?, and The View from Castle Rock; 3: Mapping the Vernacular Landscape in Alice Munro's "What Do You Want to Know For?" and Other Stories.
  • 4: Stories in the Landscape Mode: A Reading of Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women," "Walker Brothers Cowboy," and "Lichen"5: "What Place Is This?" Alice Munro's Fictional Places and Her Place in Fiction; 6: "The Emptiness in Place of Her": Space, Absence, and Memory in Alice Munro's Dear Life; 7: Down the Rabbit Hole: Revisiting the Topos of the Cave in Alice Munro's Short Stories; Part II. Close Readings of Space and Place; 8: Spaces of Utopia and Spaces of Actuality in Alice Munro's "Jakarta"; 9: Spatial Perspectives in Alice Munro's "Passion."
  • 10: Charting Alice Munro's Terra Incognita: Punctuated Space in "Free Radicals"11: Heterotopy in Alice Munro's "In Sight of the Lake"; Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index.