Alice Munro Understanding, Adapting and Teaching
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
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Mirosława Buchholtz Editor
Alice Munro Understanding, Adapting and Teaching
Second Language Learning and Teaching Issues in Literature and Culture
Series editor Mirosław Pawlak, Kalisz, Poland
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13879
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Editor Mirosława Buchholtz Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń Poland
ISSN 2193-7648 ISSN 2193-7656 (electronic) Second Language Learning and Teaching ISSN 2365-967X ISSN 2365-9688 (electronic) Issues in Literature and Culture ISBN 978-3-319-24059-6 ISBN 978-3-319-24061-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24061-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015954585 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Nancy Earle and Tyler Kessel, the reviewers of the present volume, for their valuable advice and encouragement. Their kind interest in this project and readiness to read the subsequent chapters in spite of other pressing commitments were very reassuring.
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Contents
Reading and Interviewing of Alice Munro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mirosława Buchholtz Part I
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Understanding
Gender and Space in “The Albanian Virgin” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorota Filipczak
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Images of Past and Present: Memory and Identity in Alice Munro’s Short-Story Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jędrzej Burszta
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Missions and Explorers: “Amundsen” as a Key to Reading Alice Munro’s Other Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magdalena Ładuniuk
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‘Shockingly Like, and Unlike, Home’: Gothic Realism in the Progress of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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