Alice Munro and the anatomy of the short story / edited by Oriana Palusci.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palusci, Oriana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories--21st century.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Alice Munro has devoted her entire career to the short story form in her fourteen collections, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature "as master of the contemporary short story". This edited volume investigates her art as a storyteller, the processes she performs on the contemporary short story genre in her creative anatomical theatre. Divided into five topical sections, it is a collection of scholarly chapters which offer textual insights into a single story, compare two or more texts, or casts a more panoramic view on Munro's literary production, embracing stories from her first collection Dance of the Happy Shades to her last published Dear Life. Through different critical approaches that range from post-structuralism to cultural studies, from linguistics and rhetorical analyses to translation studies, the authors insist on the concept that no fixed patterns prevail in her short stories, as Munro has constantly developed, challenged, and revised existing modes of generic configuration, while discussing the fluidity, the elusiveness, the indeterminacy, the ambiguity of her superb writing.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Section I: The Resonance of Language

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Section II: Story Bricks

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Section III: Disempowerment and Re-empowerment

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Section IV: Food, Animals and Death

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Section V: Munro in Translation

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 15, 2018).

ISBN:

1-5275-0700-9

OCLC:

1020319545