Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Defalco, Amelia; York, Lorraine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Updates and expands the scholarly examinations of Alice Munro's work

Contributes to the study of affect theory and literary ethics as well as age and disability

Challenges perceptions and assessments of Alice Munro

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319906447
• Artikelnr.: 53795751

Autorenporträt

Amelia DeFalco is University Academic Fellow in Medical Humanities in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative (2010) and Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature (2016). Lorraine York is Distinguished University Professor and Senator William McMaster Chair in Canadian Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Recent books include Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity (2013), and Reluctant Celebrity (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). 

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Risking Feeling: Alice Munro's Fiction of "Exquisite Shame", Amelia DeFalco and Lorraine York.- 2. Ethics and Infant Feeding in Alice Munro's Stories, Sara Jamieson.- 3. The Shame of Affect: Sensation and Susceptibility in Alice Munro's Fiction, Amelia DeFalco.- 4. Embodied Shame and the Resilient Ethics of Representation in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain", Ana María Fraile-Marcos.- 5. Alice Munro's Dramatic Fictions: Challenging (Dis)Ability by Playing with Oedipus the King and Embracing the Queer Art of Failure, Marlene Goldman.- 6. "Chunks of Language Caught in Her Throat": The Problem of Other(ed) Minds in Alice Munro's Stories of Cognitive Disability, Heidi Tiedemann Darroch.- 7. Alice Munro and the Shame of Murder, Susan Warwick.- 8.Child's Play: Ethical Uncertainty and Narrative Play in the Work of Alice Munro, Katherine G. Sutherland.- 9. Gravel and Grief: Alice Munro's Vulnerable Landscapes by Claire Omhovère.- 10. "A Sort of Refusal": Alice Munro's Reluctant Career, Lorraine York.- 11. Life after Life: Survival in the (Late) Fiction of Alice Munro, Naomi Morgenstern.