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1 online resource |
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European studies in North American literature and culture |
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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 |
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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." |
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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 |
| 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 |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Munro, Alice, 1931- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Munro, Alice, 1931- fast |
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Space in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Geography in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Geography in literature
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Place (Philosophy) in literature
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Space in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rao, Eleonora
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| ISBN |
9781787442603 |
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1787442608 |
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