| Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction: A Book with Maps in It Contributor(s): Lorre-Johnston, Christine (Editor), Rao, Eleonora (Editor), Cox, Ailsa (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1640140204 ISBN-13: 9781640140202 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Canadian - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2018004168 |
| Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.18 lbs) 250 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, has revolutionized the architecture of the short story. This collection of essays on Munro engages with literary geography, an emergent interdisciplinary field that is located at the interface between human geography and literary studies and is one of the most salient manifestations of the ongoing spatial turn in the arts and humanities. Critical readings of Munro's stories have labeled her literary production "regional," since she sets the majority of her short stories in the area of rural Ontario where she grew up. Until now, however, little attention has been devoted to the role of that location in the stories and tothe way that particular setting interacts with her characters' development or stasis. This collection contains eleven essays organized in two parts: first, Conceptualizing Space and Place: Houses, Landscapes, Territory; and second, Close Readings of Space and Place. Contributors: Corinne Bigot, Lynn Blin, Giuseppina Botta, Fausto Ciompi, Ailsa Cox, Christine Lorre-Johnston, Robert McGill, Claire Omhovère, Anca-Raluca Radu, Eleonora Rao, Caterina Ricciardi. Christine Lorre-Johnston is a senior lecturer in English at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. Eleonora Rao teaches English and American literatures at the University of Salerno. |