Marooning on Islands of Her Own Choosing: Inscribing Place and Instability in Alice Munro’s “Deep-Holes”
The essay analyzes Alice Munro’s “Deep-Holes” which features real, singular and apparently unconnected places, arguing that as a geomancer Munro inscribes place, highlights gaps in the referential process, and reveals instability of meaning, through shifts in the perception of space and place. “Deep...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2020
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| Zusammenfassung: | The essay analyzes Alice Munro’s “Deep-Holes” which features real, singular and apparently unconnected places, arguing that as a geomancer Munro inscribes place, highlights gaps in the referential process, and reveals instability of meaning, through shifts in the perception of space and place. “Deep-Holes” is one of the Canadian short story writer’s geoliterary stories in which she uses space to comment on her writing, to foster a double vision in readers and encourage them to draw connections between place and fiction, within a single story and from story to story. |
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