Alice Munro [electronic resource] : Understanding, Adapting and Teaching /
Buchholtz, Mirosława.editor.
The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two other ways of looking at her fiction: the perspectives of film adaptation and of pedagogy. The book is divided into three parts which mirror the key words in the title: understanding, adapting and teaching. Part One consists of four articles on various aspects of Munro's short fiction from a literary perspective. Part Two - four essays - addresses editing and film adaptations of Munro's stories (both television and feature films). Part Three consists of an essay on didactic aspects of Munro's fiction and of several interviews with teachers of Canadian literature who have included stories by Munro in their syllabi.
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Acknowledgments; Contents; Editor and Contributors; 1 Reading and Interviewing of Alice Munro; Abstract; 1 The Art of Interview; 2 The Art of Reading; References; Part IUnderstanding; 2 Gender and Space in ``The Albanian Virgin''; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Charlotte/Lottar as a Woman in Transit; 3 Sexing the Space; 4 Beyond ``Gender Trouble''; 5 ``The Gender of Choice''; 6 Conclusion: Out of the Closet; References; 3 Images of Past and Present: Memory and Identity in Alice Munro's Short-Story Cycles; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Lives of Girls and Women; 1.2 Who Do You Think You Are?
2 ``Chance,'' ``Soon,'' and ``Silence''3 Conclusion; References; 4 Missions and Explorers: ``Amundsen'' as a Key to Reading Alice Munro's Other Stories; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 ``Amundsen''; 2.1 Journey; 2.2 Quest; 2.2.1 Vivien's Quest Number 1; 2.2.2 Vivien's Quest Number 2; 2.3 Discovery; 3 ``Amundsen'' as a Key to Reading Munro's Other Stories; 3.1 Journey; 3.2 Quest; 3.3 Discovery; 4 Conclusion; References; 5 `Shockingly Like, and Unlike, Home': Gothic Realism in the Progress of Love; Abstract; 1 Gothic Realism; 2 The Progress of Love?; 3 Ambiguities; 4 Love and Fate; References
Part IIAdapting6 Hateship Loveship, Adaptation; Abstract; References; 7 Del Jordan: Becoming a Writer; Abstract; 1 Alice Munro's Künstlerroman; 2 People Around Del; 3 Events; 4 The Surroundings; 5 Becoming a Writer; References; 8 ``There Is a Change Coming [2026] in the Lives of Girls and Women.'' Del Jordan's and Catherine Sloper's Ways to Independence; Abstract; 1 Female Characters in Henry James's and Alice Munro's Books; 2 Adaptations; 3 Film Depictions of Del Jordan and Catherine Sloper; 4 Other Women; 5 Men's Roles; 6 Life and Independence; References
9 Works by Alice Munro in Textual and Editorial Scholarship: Through the Prism of Konrad G00F3rski's StudyAbstract; References; Part IIITeaching; 10 The Question of Sources: Teaching Texts Versus Hypotexts; Abstract; References; 11 Teaching Alice Munro in Canada; Abstract; 12 Alice Munro in Japan and Germany: Interviews; Abstract; 13 Teaching Alice Munro in Poland: Interviews; Abstract; 14 Alice Munro at Polish Universities: An Analysis of Selected Academic Texts, Including BA, MA and PhD Theses; Abstract; References; 15 The Lesson of the Mistress: From ``The Office'' to ``To Reach Japan''
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Includes bibliographical references.
The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two other ways of looking at her fiction: the perspectives of film adaptation and of pedagogy. The book is divided into three parts which mirror the key words in the title: understanding, adapting and teaching. Part One consists of four articles on various aspects of Munro's short fiction from a literary perspective. Part Two - four essays - addresses editing and film adaptations of Munro's stories (both television and feature films). Part Three consists of an essay on didactic aspects of Munro's fiction and of several interviews with teachers of Canadian literature who have included stories by Munro in their syllabi.
Language and languages.
Language Education.
Creativity and Arts Education.