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Alice Munro and the Art of Time reveals how one of the world's greatest writers of short stories challenged and reconfigured traditional assumptions about time. In chapters that analyze selected stories and collections from across Munro's career, Laura K. Davis examines the formal and conceptual function of temporality in Munro's oeuvre, considering the relationship between the past and the present, material experiences of being, story structure, memory, and memoir. Clear and compelling interpretations of Munro's stories offer insights into her writing process, her representations of character and setting, and the complexities of her narrative techniques-which often evade linearity and chronology, emphasizing, instead, revision, repetition, and the body. By highlighting the connections between time and various tropes in Munro's stories, including identity, ephemerality, and environmental change, this study provides new, exciting avenues for engaging with Munro's work.
Situated in the practice and expertise of close textual analysis, Alice Munro and the Art of Time explores notions of time in a selection of Munro's stories.
Situated in the practice and expertise of close textual analysis, Alice Munro and the Art of Time explores notions of time in a selection of Munro's stories. Index
"Alice Munro and the Art of Time demonstrates the richness of Munro's approaches to time in her short stories." Kait Pinder, Acadia University
"An original contribution to Munro studies." Robert Thacker, author of Alice Munro's Late Style
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Genre, Narrative, and Time in Lives of Girls and Women
• Chapter 2: The Past and the Present in Who Do You Think You Are?
• Chapter 3: Time and Corporeality: "Lichen" and "White Dump" in The Progress of Love
• Chapter 4: Time and Narrative Framing: "Friend of My Youth" and "Meneseteung" in Friend of My Youth
• Chapter 5: Memory and Retrospect: "Fiction" and "Child's Play" in Too Much Happiness
• Chapter 6: Time and Life Writing: "Corrie," "The Eye," and "Dear Life" in Dear Life
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index
Situated in the practice and expertise of close textual analysis, Alice Munro and the Art of Time explores notions of time in a selection of Munro's stories.
Situated in the practice and expertise of close textual analysis, Alice Munro and the Art of Time explores notions of time in a selection of Munro's stories. Index
"Alice Munro and the Art of Time demonstrates the richness of Munro's approaches to time in her short stories." Kait Pinder, Acadia University
"An original contribution to Munro studies." Robert Thacker, author of Alice Munro's Late Style
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Genre, Narrative, and Time in Lives of Girls and Women
• Chapter 2: The Past and the Present in Who Do You Think You Are?
• Chapter 3: Time and Corporeality: "Lichen" and "White Dump" in The Progress of Love
• Chapter 4: Time and Narrative Framing: "Friend of My Youth" and "Meneseteung" in Friend of My Youth
• Chapter 5: Memory and Retrospect: "Fiction" and "Child's Play" in Too Much Happiness
• Chapter 6: Time and Life Writing: "Corrie," "The Eye," and "Dear Life" in Dear Life
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index