Karen Smythe's theoretical study is concerned largely with the works of two of the best short story writers in the English language Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro. Although Gallant and Munro have received increasing attention in recent years, most critics have taken a general approach to their works, usually discussing the themes of memory and loss. In contrast, Smythe focuses specifically on the importance of elegy in these fictions and on the role the reader plays in reading them.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-207) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.5409/35
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773509399 9780773563612
- LCCN
- PR9192.52
- LCCN Item number
- S694 1992eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 213 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200077 (OCoLC)243500634 (CaOOCEL)400810
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- Title proper/short title
- Gallant, Munro and the poetics of elegy
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface and Acknowledgments 8
- 1 Towards a Theory of Fiction-Elegy 14
- 2 Gallant's Sad Stories 33
- 3 Gallant and the Ethics of Reading 72
- 4 Munro and Modern Elegy 117
- 5 Munrovian Melancholy 140
- 6 Forms of Loss: Contemporary Fiction-Elegy 164
- Notes 184
- Works Cited 206
- Index 220
- A 220
- B 220
- C 220
- D 221
- E 221
- F 221
- G 221
- H 222
- I 222
- J 222
- K 222
- L 222
- M 222
- N 223
- O 223
- P 223
- Q 223
- R 223
- S 224
- T 224
- W 224
