scholarly journals Alice Munro: Nobel Prize-winning Master of the Contemporary Short Story

2014 ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Reingard M. Nischik
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Alice Munro

scholarly journals Espantosa Graça: a inquietude do 'eu' em "Paixão", de Alice Munro

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Thais Fernandes Campos ◽  
Gracia Regina Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Gender Patterns ◽  
Complex Characters ◽  
Social Insertion

RESUMO: Alice Munro, escritora canadense e vencedora do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 2013, é reconhecida por sua relevante contribuição dentro dos estudos de gênero. A ficção de Munro tem proporcionado aos leitores interessantes e complexas personagens, em especial no que tange ao papel da mulher face ao seu amadurecimento e sua inserção social. Neste estudo, pretendo desenvolver uma leitura do conto “Paixão” (ano 2004) de Munro tendo em vista a visão crítica da autora, a qual desafia pressupostos ligados a padrões tradicionais e presentes tanto na construção do feminino, quanto do masculino. Para o desenvolvimento desse estudo conto com o apoio das reflexões de Elisabeth Badinter e Chris Weedom. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Conto, Gênero, Padrões, Alice Munro. _____________________________ ABSTRACT: Alice Munro, a Canadian writer and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, is recognized for her relevant contribution to gender studies. Munro's fiction has provided readers with interesting and complex characters, especially in reference of the role of women in face of their growing and social insertion. In this study, I intend to develop a reading of the story "Paixão" (year 2004) by Munro in relation to the author's critical view expressed through  male and female representations , which challenge assumptions linked to traditional gender patterns.  For the development of this study I count on with the support of the reflections of Elisabeth Badinter and Chris Weedom. KEYWORDS: Short-story, Genre, Standards, Alice Munro.  

An Office of Her Own? Alice Munro and the Legacy of Writing with In-Authority

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Mendez
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Room Of One's Own ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Women’S Writing

In Alice Munro’s short story “The Office,” the protagonist claims an office of her own in which to write. Munro’s narrative can thus be read as engaging with the ideas on the spatial conditions for women’s writing which Virginia Woolf famously explored in A Room of One’s Own. My paper takes this thematic connection as a point of departure for suggesting that a Woolfian legacy shapes Munro’s “The Office” in ways which go beyond a shared interest in spaces for women’s writing. Both A Room of One’s Own and “The Office,” this paper argues, use the discussion of women’s writing spaces as a launching pad for exploring in how far women writers may claim for themselves traditionally masculine positions of authorship and authority, and in what ways authoritative forms of literary discourse may be transformed by women’s writing. In both A Room of One’s Own and “The Office,” the interruption as element of plot and rhetorical strategy plays a central role in answering these questions.

scholarly journals Autobiography in the Anthropocene. A Geological Reading of Alice Munro

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. BE75-BE92
Author(s):  
Marlene Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Geological Features ◽  
Autobiographical Fiction ◽  
Prize Award

In the autobiographical stories of Nobel Prize award-winning author Alice Munro, questions of ontology and mortality are inextricably connected to matters of space and place. Fundamental existential dilemmas expressed in Munro’s corpus – signaled by the title of her second short story collection Who Do You Think You Are? – are linked to basic questions concerning orientation. Although autobiographical fiction frequently interweaves concerns about identity and deceased parents with recollections of ancestral spaces, as the literary critic Northrop Frye famously stated, the question ‘Where is here?’ is characteristic of the Canadian imagination. It is now also fundamental to the epoch of the Anthropocene. Although critics frequently praise Munro for her skill in presenting haunting, epiphanic moments, she is less often credited for her far less conventional tendency to tell stories covering years, even decades. My paper explores Munro’s preoccupation with these vast temporal arcs and their impact on her recursive autobiographical fiction. I argue that Munro’s penchant for ‘return and revision’ in her non-fictional works affords an opportunity for her protagonists and, by extension, her readers to revisit and ponder ancestral connections and the non-human dimensions of existence, which include sublime geological features and deep time.

scholarly journals Woman as the Other—Interpretations of the Gender Wars in “A Woman on a Roof” from the Perspective of Existential Feminism

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Junying Song
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Doris Lessing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
The Subject

Doris Lessing is one of the Nobel Prize winners and “A Woman on a Roof” is such a famous short story of hers. In the patriarchal society, women are in the lower status, but the woman in the story struggles bravely to fight against the male power. During her fighting, the woman has doubts and hesitation, but she finally forces the three males to put off their prejudice. This paper focuses on how the woman strives for her own rights, and talks from the perspective of Existential Feminism, taking the main male and female characters in “A Woman on a Roof” as examples, so as to explore women’s self-survival in the dualistic society. Through studying her feminist thinking in the short story, the paper points out that the woman finally transforms her role from the Other to the Subject and then she is in an equal position with the three males. Though the two genders does not reconcile with each other as it seems to be with the purification of rainwater in “A Woman on a Roof”, the woman has made a big progress in the pursuit of her own transcendence.

scholarly journals Unravelling the mystery of reality : typical Canadian elements in the short stories of Alice Munro

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Aleksander Kustec
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Anne Hebert ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Margaret Laurence ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Mavis Gallant ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Diversity Of Life

The contemporary Canadian short story has a specific place among literary genres in Canadian literature. It culminated in the sixties of this century, when the Canadians looked to their literature with greater interest. Canadian short story writers started to write in a different tone, and showed special interest for new themes. After 1960 authors, such as Henry Kreisel, Norman Levine, Anne Hebert, Mavis Gallant, Ethel Wilson, Joyce Marshall, Hugh Hood, Hugh Garner, Margaret Laurence, Audrey Callahan Thomas, Mordecai Richler, and Alice Munro, refused to use the traditional plot, and showed more interest for characterisation. By using a typical Canadian setting, their stories began to reflect social events of their time. A new awareness of identity stepped forward, and above all their stories became a reflection of the diversity of life in all Canadian provinces. The contemporary Canadian short story writers began to overstep the boundaries of their imagination.

Epilogue

More Time ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 188-192
Author(s):  
Lee Clark Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Middle Period

This brief summary reviews the argument for various late styles, none of which exactly fits a pattern. Each among the quartet of short story writers whose work has been assessed in this book (Alice Munro, Andre Dubus, Joy Williams, and Lydia Davis) differs dramatically from an earlier self as well as from the others. And in closing the book with a discussion of Robert Coover’s minimalist “A Sudden Story”—a piece written in what could be termed Coover’s middle period—we realize how even the very shortest of stories has the capacity to summarize an entire centuries-long tradition.

scholarly journals Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Woman: An Analysis of Alice Munro’s “Nettles” from the Perspective of an Initiation Story

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Xue
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Aged Woman ◽  
Middle Aged Woman

<p>“Nettles” is a short story by the famous contemporary Canadian female writer Alice Munro. It is a multi-thematic story since many scholars have done research on its themes from such angles as love and marriage, the perplexity about life and feminism, etc. Nevertheless, few critics have studied it as an initiation story. Thus, by employing textual analysis as the research approach, this article studies “Nettles” from the perspective of an initiation story in terms of its content, characters and structure. Finally, the research draws the conclusion that “Nettles” is a typical initiation story about a middle-aged woman, depicting how she turns from a spiritually immature woman into a mature one.</p>

scholarly journals „Nie-miejsce”, ślad i pamięć. Opowiadanie Olgi Tokarczuk Numery w przekładzie Kseni Starosielskiej

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-115
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Jastrzębska
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Russian Translation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
The Future ◽  
First Time

“Non-lieu, Trace, and Memory: Olga Tokarczuk’s Short Story “Numery” in Ksenia Starosielska’s Translation The article offers an analysis of the Russian translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s 1989 short story “Numery” [Numbers]. Published in 2000 in the journal Innostrannaya Literatura, Ksenia Starosielska’s translation presented the future Nobel prize winner to Russian readers for the first time. The translation analysis is based on the categories of “non-lieu”, trace, and memory, which, within the interpretive paradigm adopted in the article, constitute a crucial meaning-making element of Tokarczuk’s short story.

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