Forsaken Objects, Haunted Houses, Female Bodies, and “the squalor of tragedy in ordinary life”: Reading Dance of the Happy Shades with Later Stories
Relying on Michel de Certeau’s analyses in The Practice of Everyday Life, this essay considers the functions of small, trivial or discarded objects and jumble to be found in ordinary houses that pepper Munro’s fiction and, more specifically, their connection to story telling and writing. The essay l...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_5004 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.5004 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.5004 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/5004 2021-07-15T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dsyh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Forsaken Objects, Haunted Houses, Female Bodies, and “the squalor of tragedy in ordinary life”: Reading Dance of the Happy Shades with Later Stories Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Bigot, Corinne Relying on Michel de Certeau’s analyses in The Practice of Everyday Life, this essay considers the functions of small, trivial or discarded objects and jumble to be found in ordinary houses that pepper Munro’s fiction and, more specifically, their connection to story telling and writing. The essay links them to patterns, and their metatextual dimensions. Thirdly, taking into account the attention paid to female bodies and their flaws, such as lumps, the essay considers how Munro explores connections between body and text. The corpus under consideration comprises several stories from her début collection; “The Beggar Maid,” from Munro’s second story cycle; “Meneseteung” from Friend of My Youth; “Family Furnishings” (2001) and two stories from her 2009 collection: “Child’s Play” and “Free Radicals.” |
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Relying on Michel de Certeau’s analyses in The Practice of Everyday Life, this essay considers the functions of small, trivial or discarded objects and jumble to be found in ordinary houses that pepper Munro’s fiction and, more specifically, their connection to story telling and writing. The essay links them to patterns, and their metatextual dimensions. Thirdly, taking into account the attention paid to female bodies and their flaws, such as lumps, the essay considers how Munro explores connections between body and text. The corpus under consideration comprises several stories from her début collection; “The Beggar Maid,” from Munro’s second story cycle; “Meneseteung” from Friend of My Youth; “Family Furnishings” (2001) and two stories from her 2009 collection: “Child’s Play” and “Free Radicals.” |
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Forsaken Objects, Haunted Houses, Female Bodies, and “the squalor of tragedy in ordinary life”: Reading Dance of the Happy Shades with Later Stories |
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