“Home” and the Narrative of an Impossible Nostos
The article looks at the contradictory dynamics at work in the representation of a “homecoming” in Alice Munro’s story “Home.” It discusses the protagonist’s changed relation to place and landscape as she returns to her former home as an adult. The house she lived in as a child has been renovated an...
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| Τόπος έκδοσης: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Μορφή: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Γλώσσα: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | The article looks at the contradictory dynamics at work in the representation of a “homecoming” in Alice Munro’s story “Home.” It discusses the protagonist’s changed relation to place and landscape as she returns to her former home as an adult. The house she lived in as a child has been renovated and is almost entirely transformed now. Her reflections suggest loss and nostalgia; it is however a nostalgia of a reflective kind which does not pretend to rebuild the mythical place called home; it does not indulge in loss. Instead it is ironic, inconclusive and fragmentary. |
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