TY - BOOK ID - 15316175 TI - The tumble of reason : Alice Munro's discourse of absence PY - 1994 SN - 1442613068 0802006175 9786612003066 1282003062 1442682477 9781442682474 9781282003064 9780802006172 PB - Toronto Buffalo London University of Toronto Press DB - UniCat KW - Women and literature KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Discourse analysis, Literary KW - English Literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - History KW - Discourse analysis, Literary. KW - Munro, Alice, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Literary discourse analysis KW - Laidlaw, Alice Ann, KW - מאנרו, אליס, KW - מונרו, אליס, KW - 820 "19" MUNRO, ALICE KW - -#KOHU:CANADIANA 2000 KW - 820 "19" MUNRO, ALICE Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MUNRO, ALICE KW - Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MUNRO, ALICE KW - -Munro, Alice KW - --Criticism and interpretation KW - #KOHU:CANADIANA 2000 KW - Rhetoric KW - Literary style KW - Literary movements KW - Literature, Modern KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Post-postmodernism (Literature) KW - Discours littéraire KW - Postmodernisme (Littérature) KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Histoire KW - Critique et interprétation KW - Munro, Alice KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Munro, Alice Ann Laidlaw, KW - Canada. KW - Canada (Province) KW - Canadae KW - Ceanada KW - Chanada KW - Chanadey KW - Dominio del Canadá KW - Dominion of Canada KW - Jianada KW - Kʻaenada KW - Kaineḍā KW - Kanada KW - Ḳanadah KW - Kanadaja KW - Kanadas KW - Ḳanade KW - Kanado KW - Kanakā KW - Province of Canada KW - Republica de Canadá KW - Yn Chanadey UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15316175 AB - Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'. But her stories frequently turn on what has been left out; they are rife with unsent (unfinished) letters, with things people mean to, but do not, say or tell. Ajay Heble's study focuses on Munro's involvement with a 'discourse of absence' and suggests that our understanding of these texts often depends not only on what happens in the fiction, but also on what might have happened. Munro's stories confer their meaning not simply by referring to an outer reality, but also by bestowing upon the reader a stimulating wealth of possibilities taken from what we might call a potential or absent level of meaning. Characteristically, they articulate an unresolvable tension between variants on these positions: between, on the one hand, her delineation of a surface reality -- a world 'out there' which we are invited to recognize as real and true -- and, on the other, her involvement with a discourse of absence that challenges the very conventions within which her fiction operates. Drawing on structuralist and post-structuralist theories of language and its relation to meaning, knowledge, and systems of power, and on theories of postmodernist fiction, Heble offers both a careful reading of Munro's stories and a theoretical framework for reading meanings in absence. His book extends recent revisionist analysis and makes a valuable and original contribution to the criticism on Munro. ER -