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Rien que la vie

Autor: Alice Munro

Número de Páginas: 277

Dans ce recueil de treize nouvelles, Alice Munro nous emporte avec ses personnages jusqu'aux moments charnières de leurs existences, où tout peut basculer : une mère perd la trace de son enfant, un soldat saute inopinément du train qui le ramène chez lui, une jeune professeur part enseigner dans un sanatorium reculé, une femme perdue se lie à un inconnu... Le hasard des rencontres, l'étrangeté des actes manqués, les coups funestes du destin : autant de lignes de force que Munro ausculte et nous restitue avec la grâce d'un " Tchekhov de notre temps ". Pour la première fois, elle se confie également sur sa propre vie dans une ultime nouvelle. Alice Munro est, plus que jamais, l'écrivain de l'âme humaine.

Reflections

Autor: K. Peter Stich

Número de Páginas: 189

This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit's account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an in depth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature. Published in English.

Literary Theory

Autor: Julie Rivkin , Michael Ryan

Número de Páginas: 1652

The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics. Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to Postcolonialism Expanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant. Pedagogically enhanced with detailed editorial introductions and a comprehensive glossary of terms

Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément, à la folie, pas du tout

Autor: Alice Munro

Número de Páginas: 325

De quoi parlent les histoires d'Alice Munro ? De baisers donnés. De meubles encombrants dont on ne parvient pas à se séparer. De trahisons nécessaires. De mots d'adieu. De femmes déchirées entre la passion et la vie domestique, le désir d'être libre et la bonne éducation. Neuf histoires d'amour, en somme La nouvelle traduction d'Agnès Desarthe restitue avec précision leur charme subtil. Traduit de l'anglais (Canada) par Agnès Desarthe.

The Canadian Short Story

Autor: Reingard M. Nischik

Número de Páginas: 442

Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and innovative writers today, among them Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, and many others. Yet in contrast to the stature and popularity of the genre and the writers who partake in it, surprisingly little literary criticism and theory has been devoted to the Canadian short story. This collection redresses that imbalance by providing the first collection of critical interpretations of a range of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain via representative examples completes it. The collection is geared both to specialists in and to students of Canadian literature. For the latter it is of particular benefit that the volume provides not only a collection of...

Amistad de juventud

Autor: Alice Munro

Número de Páginas: 277

Una colección de relatos de la autora que actualmente está considerada la maestra mundial en el género. En los diez relatos que componen Amistad de juventud se recrean los misterios que anidan en el centro de la experiencia humana. Múltiples vidas circulan por sus páginas, las vidas de hombres y mujeres que rememoran los deseos y los sueños que enterraron hace ya quizá demasiado, las vidas que resultaron de elecciones incomprensibles pero que asimismo las han moldeado hasta convertirlas en lo que son. La mano sabia de Alice Munro lo describe todo con una piedad y un arte inusitados, haciendo de este libro una verdadera obra maestra. Reseñas: «Los relatos de Alice Munro contienen muchas veces novelas enteras, abarcan amplitudes temporales y saltos de generaciones que uno no imaginaba que pudieran caber en el espacio de unas pocas decenas de páginas.» Antonio Muñoz Molina «Me habría gustado escribir cualquier cuento de Alice Munro. Me parece una maestra. Me ha ayudado a escribir sobre la maternidad, la amistad entre mujeres, las relaciones entre madres e hijas.» Elvira Lindo, La 2 de TVE

Pesadumbre laboral y heroísmos de ficción

Autor: Efrén Giraldo

Número de Páginas: 432

Examinar las creaciones artísticas en cuanto trabajo, así como la vida intelectual desde la perspectiva de sus transformaciones recientes, es el tema de conversación que proponen los ensayos de este libro. Ya sea mediante el análisis de obras o a través del aporte a los grandes debates teóricos, se consideran temas tan variados como los oficios de la creación, las figuraciones autorales, el impacto de las redes sociales o la economía de la atención. Considerando la génesis e historia del trabajo inmaterial o el presente de la universidad y la precarización del ejercicio investigativo, se discuten asuntos que atañen al mundo editorial, a la producción independiente, al mercado del arte y al péndulo que va de la explotación a la auto explotación. Se trata de una obra que, en su propósito unitario, logra sumar aportes de diferentes tradiciones e ilumina una problemática que interesa a todos aquellos que se ocupan del acto de crear como profesión fundamental de la cultura.

Context North America

Autor: Camille R. La Bossière

Número de Páginas: 177

Context North America is a comparative study of Canadian and American literary relations that emphasizes the cultural and institutional contexts in which Canadian literature is taught and read. This volume exemplifies the question of how the literatures of Canada might aptly be studied and contextualized in the days of heightened discontinuity and increasingly ambiguous borderlines both between and within the many narratives that make up North America. Published in English.

Other People's Mail

Autor: Gail Pool

Número de Páginas: 290

"The first collection of its kind, Other People's Mail is a unique and important anthology. Pool's highly informative introduction explores the nature of letter fiction, and her individual preface to each story provides background information on both the author and the tale. A select listing of additional letter stories rounds out the anthology.

Companion to Literature

Autor: Abby H. P. Werlock

Número de Páginas: 859

Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."

Cuestiones candentes

Autor: Margaret Atwood

Número de Páginas: 598

Una brillante colección de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda pública hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficción y la crisis climática. La galardonada y exitosa autora de El cuento de la criada y Los testamentos ofrece su divertida, erudita, curiosa y asombrosamente clarividente visión del mundo, desde la deuda y la tecnología hasta la crisis climática y la libertad, y busca respuestas a cuestiones candentes como... ¿Por qué la gente cuenta historias, sea cual sea su cultura? ¿Cuánto puedes dar de ti sin evaporarte? ¿Cómo podemos vivir en nuestro planeta? ¿Qué relación hay entre los zombis y el autoritarismo? Una colección de ensayos de actualidad con el marchamo indiscutible de la que quizá sea la novelista viva más famosa y, sin duda, la más venerable de nuestro tiempo. La crítica ha dicho... «La autora de El cuento de la criada vuelve a probar su condición de profeta de la modernidad capaz de diseccionar los retos de las sociedades modernas.» Pablo Gil, El Mundo «Desbordante siempre de humor, de curiosidad inquieta y de erudición dinámica y no anquilosada.» Mercedes Monmany, ABC - Cultural «Ésta no es una mera colección de ensayos para los...

This is Our Writing

Autor: T. F. Rigelhof

Número de Páginas: 218

Punctuate his title as you like but T.F. Rigelhof considers This is Our Writing a declaration, an enquiry and an exclamation. As a writer of half a dozen, a reviewer of dozens upon dozens, and as a reader of a multitude more books, Terry Rigelhof knows much about writing in Canada. In these eleven essays, he asks what is best in what has been written by Canadians in the twentieth century. He examines selected works of some writers whose accomplishments need serious revaluation. What are the real achievements of Robertson Davies, Carole Corbeil, Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Hugh Hood, Leonard Cohen and George Grant? Rigelhof comes up with a list that will surprise some and dismay others. This is a book for readers who have always known in their heart of hearts that Robertson Davies was an egregious windbag and that underneath the inspired silliness of their carefully contrived and managed public images, Mordecai Richler and Leonard Cohen have produced three of the most intelligent novels we have. In a sequence of interlocking personal essays, Rigelhof explores living a writerly life in Canada at the end of the twentieth century. The text is fortified by a dozen photographs, all ...

Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-colonial Literatures

Autor: C. C. Barfoot , Theo D'haen , Theo D'. Haen

Número de Páginas: 326

All The Essays In This Anthology Reflect The Growing Importance Of Literature And Cultures That Might Once Have Been Regarded As Marginal. This Book Affirms The Importance And Interest Of A Wide Variety Of Literatures Sharing A Language But Reflecting A Rich And Provocative Diversity Of Histories, Experiences And Attitudes To The Shared World Which Still Divides Us. Couple Of The Essays Look Into The Work Of Anita Desai And Salman Rushdie.

Burning Questions

Autor: Margaret Atwood

Número de Páginas: 394

In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as... • Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx & Crake, and Atwood's other beloved works. • How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? • How can we live on our planet? • Is it true? And is it fair? • What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood’s views on the climate crisis, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.

Shakespeare and Canada

Autor: Irena R. Makaryk , Kathryn Prince

Número de Páginas: 363

Shakespeare in Canada is the result of a collective desire to explore the role that Shakespeare has played in Canada over the past two hundred years, but also to comprehend the way our country’s culture has influenced our interpretation of his literary career and heritage. What function does Shakespeare serve in Canada today? How has he been reconfigured in different ways for particular Canadian contexts? The authors of this book attempt to answer these questions while imagining what the future might hold for William Shakespeare in Canada. Covering the Stratford Festival, the cult CBC television program Slings and Arrows, major Canadian critics such as Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan, the influential acting teacher Neil Freiman, the rise of Québécois and First Nation approaches to Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s place in secondary schools today, this collection reflects the diversity and energy of Shakespeare’s afterlife in Canada. Collectively, the authors suggest that Shakespeare continues to offer Canadians “remembrance of ourselves.” This is a refreshingly original and impressive contribution to Shakespeare studies—a considerable achievement in any work on the...

More Time

Autor: Lee Clark Mitchell

Número de Páginas: 223

More Time traces the careeres of four short story writers, Alice Munro, Andre Dubus, Joy Williams, and Lydia Davis. The focus is on the latter part of these writers careers and how each author has developed and crafted a late style.

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction

Autor: María J. López , Pilar Villar-argáiz

Número de Páginas: 251

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English. In its concern with what is called 'communities of secrecy', it is fundamentally indebted to the thought of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot, who have pointed to the fallacies and dangers of identitarian and exclusionary communities, arguing for forms of being-in-common characterized by non-belonging, singularity and otherness. Also drawing on the work of J. Hillis Miller, Derek Attridge, Nicholas Royle, Matei Calinescu, Frank Kermode and George Simmel, among others, this volume analyses the centrality of secrets in the construction of literary form, narrative sequence and meaning, together with their foundational role in our private and interpersonal lives and the public and political realms. In doing so, it engages with the Derridean ethico-political value of secrecy and Derrida's conception of literature as the exemplary site for the operation of the unconditional secret.

Alternative Temporalities

Autor: Teresa Valentini , Angela Weiser , John Zilcosky

Número de Páginas: 235

Alternative temporalities have often emerged as a reaction to the normativizing force of time, demonstrating that time can be used as an instrument of power and oppression, but also as a means to resist this very oppression. Alternative Temporalities draws on analyses of modern literature to examine this often-neglected role of time. By exploring forms of temporal resistance in artistic representation, such as short stories and novels, that challenge the imposition of colonial, gender, or capitalist temporal orders, the book reveals how storytelling can be an essential tool in questioning and pushing back against coercive temporal structures. The book analyses literary representations of time that challenge dominant temporalities and intersect different disciplines such as gender and sexuality studies, trauma and Indigenous studies, race and identity, and religion. It features narrative analyses proposing alternative embodied experiences of time, focusing on topics including the temporality of the AIDS-affected body, the experience of time in prison, and slowness in opposition to modern acceleration. Ultimately, Alternative Temporalities aims to create new theories as well as...

Stories in Letters - Letters in Stories

Autor: Rebekka Schuh

Número de Páginas: 382

This book deals with letters in Anglophone Canadian short stories of the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century in the context of liminality. It argues that in the course of the epistolary renaissance, the letter – which has often been deemed to be obsolete in literature – has not only enjoyed an upsurge in novels but also migrated to the short story, thus constituting the genre of the epistolary short story. .

A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English

Autor: Erin Fallon , R.c. Feddersen , James Kurtzleben , Maurice A. Lee , Susan Rochette-crawley

Número de Páginas: 513

Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biography, a review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume begins with a detailed introduction to the short story genre and concludes with an annotated bibliography of major works on short story theory.

De Vuelta A Lo Básico

Autor: Giles Ekins

Número de Páginas: 201

De vuelta a lo básico y otras historias es una mezcla ecléctica de 20 historias de Giles Ekins, autor de Sinistrari y Gallows Walk. Esta antología incluye la caprichosa y galardonada «De vuelta a lo básico», la comedia «Llámame Rubí» y «Un final largo, largo». Los cuentos históricos de la colección incluyen los aclamados «Sombras de un sueño», «El puesto de limonada» y «Portentos», mientras que «Como era, como es» es una sátira irónica sobre la vida estudiantil en la década de 1980. Completando la colección está «En la brillante luz del amanecer», una desgarradora historia de amor. Esta antología deleitará a lectores de todos los gustos.

Libros: Babelia, los mejores del año 2013

Autor: El PaÍs

Número de Páginas: 206

Babelia. Los libros del año... 2013 De la burbuja inmobiliaria a las redes sociales y de la Rusia de Putin a la tensión nacionalista en España, los mejores libros de 2013 –elegidos por medio centenar de críticos y periodistas culturales de EL PAÍS– se acercan a la actualidad tanto desde el ensayo como desde la narrativa. En el ámbito de la literatura en español, autores consagrados como Rafael Chirbes y Antonio Muñoz Molina –cronistas de la crisis económica desde la ficción y la no ficción– conviven en la selección de Babelia con escritores noveles como César Rendueles y Jesús Carrasco, cuyos primeros libros fueron dos de las revelaciones de la temporada. En cuanto a la literatura traducida, la lista recoge nombres ya clásicos de la narrativa contemporánea como Richard Ford, Jean Echenoz o Emmanuel Carrère y subraya la valía de la cuentista canadiense Alice Munro, último premio Nobel de Literatura. Los libros de la semana Cada sábado Babelia destaca un libro que, por su calidad o por su actualidad, puede interesar a cualquier lector. Novela, historia, poesía, ciencia o filosofía, todos los géneros tiene cabida en una sección pensada como sugerencia...

Un cóctel propio. Combinados para señoritas letraheridas

Autor: Laura Becherer , Savannah Marlatt

Número de Páginas: 137

Cincuenta cócteles inspirados por escritoras famosas de todo el mundo: Reino Unido, Estados Unidos,Canadá, Francia, Alemania... Con sus recetas y los perfiles literarios de las escritoras que los inspiraron. Descubriremos las delicias de Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Zelda Fitzgerald, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Marguerite Duras o Elfriede Jelinek. Este hermoso libro contiene fotografías de muchos de los cócteles, y sus bellas ilustraciones de cada una de las escritoras suponen un homenaje a su escritura.

La vista desde Castle Rock

Autor: Alice Munro

Número de Páginas: 336

A través de estos relatos Alice Munro demuestra que la ficción tiene mucho que decir acerca de la vida Considerada la obra más personal de la autora por haberse inspirado en su propia familia, Munro logra fundir a través de estos relatos los hechos y las leyendas que forman su legado familiar. Ofrece una versión ambivalente y con matices ficticios de su propio pasado: desde sus ancestros de Castle Rock en el siglo XVIII hasta la ambición frustrada de sus padres en el Canadá de los cincuenta. Desde la experiencia de unos inmigrantes escoceses, quienes no tardan en descubrir que la vida en la tierra soñada no será la de un cuento de hadas, hasta el día a día de la rural Ontario, La vista desde Castle Rock nos habla de esperanza, adversidades e incertidumbres. La crítica ha dicho... «Una obra rara y fascinante en la que el pasado solo tiene sentido en relación al presente, y el presente solo tiene sentido en relación al pasado.» The Guardian «Me habría gustado escribir cualquier cuento de Alice Munro. Me parece una maestra. Me ha ayudado a escribir sobre la maternidad, la amistad entre mujeres, las relaciones entre madres e hijas.» Elvira Lindo, La 2 de TVE

Figuring Grief

Autor: Karen E. Smythe

Número de Páginas: 224

The title, Figuring Grief, refers to the narrative process whereby mourning is depicted. In her textual analysis, Smythe explores various connections between representation and consolation. Drawing on genre and narratological theory, she outlines the development of the "fiction-elegy" as a sub-genre and suggests that the modernist writings of Woolf and Joyce are paradigmatic examples of the form. She then uses these paradigms as suggestive "reading models" for the interpretation of works by Gallant, Munro, and other contemporary fiction-elegists. Figuring Grief offers new readings of specific works and suggests that new ways of reading are both demanded and rewarded by a poetics of elegy.

Literary Sisterhoods

Autor: Deborah Heller

Número de Páginas: 204

In literary works by women authors ranging from Mme de Stael, George Eliot, and Anna Banti, to contemporary writers Alice Munro and Grace Paley, Deborah Heller examines how women writers over the past two centuries have represented the challenges of being both a woman and an artist. Literary Sisterhoods examines the untold connections between the woman author and her subject, between woman authors, and among women artists the world over. Heller teases out a convincing assertion of sisterhoods for a diverse range of authors and works despite the differences of the cultures and eras they represent. Heller's book builds on feminist criticism and scholarship that has helped make us aware of the distinctive perspectives on female experience revealed in women's writing. Literary Sisterhoods explores how women authors construct their female protagonists' quests for creative self-expression. Situating these narrative journeys in their own times and cultures, Heller shows how they contribute to a common tradition that speaks to readers today.

The Found Voice

Autor: Denis Sampson

Número de Páginas: 196

The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted--to understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative voice of a unique artist. The essays which explore this hidden process of the writer writing focus on some of the major writers of recent times, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, William Trevor, and Mavis Gallant. The focus of investigation is a single work by each author, and many of them identify the book in which this turning point was reached. The writers have a somewhat different sense of what the voice is, 'a true voice', 'the voice in the mind', 'the writing voice', etc., yet all of them accept the phrase 'finding a voice' as a decisive and necessary process towards a unique style and vision, their raison d'être as artists. These essays allow each one to define his or her sense of the process of writing, and their style is exploratory. Nevertheless, certain patterns emerge, of migration and cultural displacement, of linguistic self-consciousness, of memory and a reimagining of the first home, of absorbing and rejecting mentors and models. Crucially, the essays rely not just on...

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Autor: Mark Hawkins-dady

Número de Páginas: 1024

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Telling Stories

Autor: Jacqueline Bardolph , André Viola , Jean-pierre Durix

Número de Páginas: 500

The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community.Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's "Fox," her version of what she calls in her commentary "displaced autobiography'" or "creative non-fiction." Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further...

Famous People Around The World. VOLUME 02B

Autor: Marcelo Gameiro

Número de Páginas: 522

Get ready to take a thrilling journey through the lives of some of the most fascinating people in the world! "Famous People Around The World" is an engrossing read that provides an in-depth look at the lives of various famous personalities, from artists and scientists to musicians and politicians. This book covers all aspects of these people's lives, starting from their early years, upbringing, education, and pivotal experiences that shaped their lives. It explores their fascinating careers, achievements, turning points, and contributions to their respective fields. But that's not all - this book delves deeper into the personal lives of these famous individuals, including their relationships, marriages, hobbies, interests, and even any scandals or controversies they may have been involved in. Moreover, this book also examines the legacies of these influential figures and how they have impacted their industry or society as a whole. You will be amazed at the lasting contributions that these people have made and the ways they are remembered even to this day. As you read through the pages, you will discover the unique qualities and quirks that make these people stand out. You will...

Todo queda en casa

Autor: Alice Munro

Número de Páginas: 796

La selección de los mejores cuentos de Alice Munro, Nobel de Literatura en 2013, hecha por ella misma. «¿Cómo lo hará Alice Munro? Lo que consigue parece magia». Sara Mesa Cuando, una mañana de octubre de 2013, sonó el nombre de Alice Munro como ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura, no eran muchos los lectores que conocían su obra, que habían andado con ella por los pueblos canadienses donde se despliega su mundo y habían descubierto los secretos que se esconden a menudo debajo del mantel de hule de una mesa de cocina cualquiera. Muchos se preguntaron por dónde empezar a leer, y la respuesta está en Todo queda en casa, una selección de los mejores cuentos de Alice Munro realizada por la autora como feliz despedida de su tarea de escritora, en un recorrido que abarca toda su carrera literaria. Estos veinticuatro relatos resumen el trabajo de una vida entera dedicada a hurgar en las emociones de una manera prodigiosa, porque ahí, en esos parajes tan lejanos, encontramos lo mejor y lo peor de nosotros. A modo de prólogo, esta edición incluye «Alice Munro en sus propias palabras», la entrevista que sirvió como discurso de agradecimiento a la Academia Sueca el...

Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War

Autor: J. Fisher

Número de Páginas: 270

This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war, disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of World War I literature. It calls into question public versus private perceptions of time, mass media, urban spaces, emotion, and the increasingly uncertain status of the future.

Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas

Autor: Wilfried Raussert , Susana Rocha Teixeira

Número de Páginas: 248

Resorting to life narratives as a comprehensive umbrella term and embracing hemispheric American studies paradigms, this edited volume explores the interrelations between life narratives, the social world, creativity, and different forms of media to narrate and (re)present the self to see in which way these expressions offer (new) means of (self-) representation within cultural productions from the Americas. Creativity in the context of life narratives nourishes the act of narrating and propels among others the desire to link individual life stories with larger stories of social embeddedness, conditioning, and transformation thus pushing new forms of historiography and other forms of nonfictional writing. Accordingly, the creative impulse fuses individual and collective experience with a larger understanding of the social including the latter’s local and global embeddedness. The contributions in this volume analyze the ways in which the dynamics, tensions, and reciprocities between narrative, creativity, and the social world unfold in life narratives from the Americas. In particular, this volume addresses scholars and students of life writing, cultural and literary studies,...

From Fiction to Psychoanalysis

Autor: Rosemary Rizq

Número de Páginas: 212

How can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, explores what literary fiction can bring to psychoanalysis. In this fascinating collection of essays, she draws on stories written by authors ranging from Henry James to Kazuo Ishiguro and Colm Tóibín. By investigating the possibilities for ‘fruitful encounter and dynamic exchange’ between psychoanalysis and literature, Rizq sets out to offer a fresh perspective on theoretical ideas that are often presented within the psychoanalytic literature in abstract, overly technical ways. In a remarkably fresh approach, this book explores how fiction can inform, illuminate and even transform our understanding of psychoanalysis. Written for practicing clinicians, academics and students as well as for the wider public, this book offers an original and revealing perspective on the overlapping knowledge-claims and concerns of both literary fiction and psychoanalysis.

Care Home Stories

Autor: Sally Chivers , Ulla Kriebernegg

Número de Páginas: 311

Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poorhouse still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the continuities in the stories we tell about nursing homes.

The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story

Autor: Maria Löschnigg

Número de Páginas: 257

This volume aims to introduce undergraduates, graduates, and general readers to the diversity and richness of Canadian short story writing and to the narrative potential of short fiction in general. Addressing a wide spectrum of forms and themes, the book will familiarise readers with the development and cultural significance of Canadian short fiction from the early 19th century to the present. A strong focus will be on the rich reservoir of short fiction produced in the past four decades and the way in which it has responded to the anxieties and crises of our time. Drawing on current critical debates, each chapter will highlight the interrelations between Canadian short fiction and historical and socio-cultural developments. Case studies will zoom in on specific thematic or aesthetic issues in an exemplary manner. The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story will provide an accessible and comprehensive overview ideal for students and general readers interested in the multifaceted and thriving medium of the short story in Canada.

You Can't Get There from Here

Autor: Ryan Porter

Número de Páginas: 225

Rather than reading small-town representations in Canadian literature as portraits of a parochial past or a lost golden age, this book claims that they are best understood as sophisticated statements on the effects of modernity in an ever-more cosmopolitan world. In Ontario, as urbanization increased over the past century, small towns became a popular literary trope, and Ryan Porter argues that literary small towns are reflections, and even sublimated explorations, of contemporary life. Referencing the theories of heritage scholars, who view popularly understood pasts as constructions shaped by changing sensibilities, You Can't Get There from Here argues that the literary small-town Ontario past is malleable, consisting of attempts to come to terms with the present in which the narrators find themselves. The book focuses on four key Ontario authors - Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Jane Urquhart - as well as many secondary authors, and links the readings to much broader trends in actual Ontario towns and in popular culture.