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.

List of contents

Introduction - Christine Lorre-Johnston and Eleonora Rao
Where Do You Think You Are? Alice Munro's Open Houses - Robert McGill
"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 - Eleonora Rao
Mapping the Vernacular Landscape in Alice Munro's "What Do You Want to Know For?" and Other Stories - Corinne Bigot
Stories in the Landscape Mode: A Reading of Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women," "Walker Brothers Cowboy," and "Lichen" - Claire Omhovère
"What Place Is This?" Alice Munro's Fictional Places and Her Place in Fiction - Anca-Raluca Radu
"The Emptiness in Place of Her": Space, Absence, and Memory in Alice Munro's Dear Life - Ailsa Cox
Down the Rabbit Hole: Revisiting the Topos of the Cave in Alice Munro's Short Stories - Christine Lorre-Johnston
Spaces of Utopia and Spaces of Actuality in Alice Munro's "Jakarta" - Fausto Ciompi
Spatial Perspectives in Alice Munro's "Passion" - Giuseppina Botta
Charting Alice Munro's Terra Incognita: Punctuated Space in "Free Radicals" - Lynn Blin
Heterotopy in Alice Munro's "In Sight of the Lake" - Caterina Ricciardi

About the author

Christine Lorre-Johnston, Eleonora Rao

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ailsa Cox, Christine Lorre-Johnston, Anca-Raluca Radu, Eleonora Rao, Caterina Ricciardi
• Assisted by: Christine Lorre-Johnston (Editor), Eleonora Rao (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781640140202
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-020-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture; European Studies in North Amer; European Studies in North American Literature and Culture; European Studies in North Amer
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies