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"This work examines Alice Munro's writing from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. The project is based on the recognition that Munro's talent lies largely in her intuitive grasp of the complexities of human subjectivity, and in her ability to make those subtleties and ambiguities perceptible. The Lacanian approach to the analysis of the human psyche allows the reader not only to perceive those human complexities, but to understand what underpins them. In its attention to the place of language in the formation of the subject, Lacanian theory provides the necessary framework for a close textual reading that targets the libidinal structuring of the text. (The Lacanian concept of jouissance involves enjoyment, orgasm, but also a compulsion to transgress and go beyond the pleasure principle, thereby bringing inevitable pain.) Each Munro story chosen for analysis deals with particular aspects of the desires and enigmas of feminine subjectivity. This involves a progression that corresponds, logically speaking, to internal conflicts or questionings appropriate to different moments in life. The book begins by looking at stories in which the main character is a child, confronted by the inscrutability of parental injunctions, desires, and symbolic functions. Part II offers analyses of stories that deal with adult perspectives, notably in the field of love relationships, where desire, jouissance and love are examined in a serious effort to follow the logic of the texts to their point of impossibility : there where meaning stops. The final section draws certain conclusions from the analyses and extends their implications to other works by Munro, seeing in the writing the trace of the particular 'fixion' (a combination of fiction and fixation) of Munro's textual narratives."--

Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- Munro, Alice, --- Lacan, Jacques, --- Lacan, Jacques --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- Munro, Alice Ann Laidlaw, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Munro, Alice

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820 "19" MUNRO, ALICE --- Women and literature --- -#KOHU:CANADIANA 2000 --- Literature --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MUNRO, ALICE --- History --- -Munro, Alice --- -Criticism and interpretation --- 820 "19" MUNRO, ALICE Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MUNRO, ALICE --- #KOHU:CANADIANA 2000 --- Munro, Alice, --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Munro, Alice --- Criticism and interpretation --- Munro, Alice Ann Laidlaw,

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Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro’s writing. The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical criticism, age studies, disability studies, animal studies, and posthumanism. These essays offer us an Alice Munro who is not the kindly Canadian icon reinforcing small-town verities who was celebrated and perpetuated in acts of national pedagogy with her Nobel Prize win; they ponder, instead, an edgier, messier Munro whose fictions of affective and ethical perplexities disturb rather than comfort. In Munro’s fiction, unruly embodiments and affects interfere with normative identity and humanist conventions of the human based on reason and rationality, destabilizing prevailing gender and sexual politics, ethical responsibilities, and affective economies. As these essays make clear, Munro’s fiction reminds us of the consequences of everyday affects and the extraordinary ordinariness of the ethical encounters we engage again and again. .

Ethics in literature. --- Munro, Alice, --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- America-Literatures. --- Literary Theory. --- Contemporary Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literatures. --- Theory

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What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer's archive? Collections of authors' manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published text. JoAnn McCaig sets out to show how archival materials can also provide fascinating insights into the business of culture, reveal the individuals, institutions, and ideologies that shape the author and her work, and describe the negotiations that occur between an author and the cultural marketplace. Using a feminist cultural studies approach, JoAnn McCaig ""reads in"" to the

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820 "19" MUNRO, ALICE --- Women and literature --- -Literature --- 820 "19" MUNRO, ALICE Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MUNRO, ALICE --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MUNRO, ALICE --- History --- -Munro, Alice --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -820 "19" MUNRO, ALICE Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MUNRO, ALICE --- Munro, Alice, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Munro, Alice Ann Laidlaw, --- Munro, Alice