“A Cavity Everywhere”: The Postponement of Knowing in “Corrie”
Using the tools of narratology and literary linguistics, I argue that Munro deftly foreshadows and prepares for the revelation her protagonist confronts at the story’s conclusion: that she has been duped and exploited by her married lover. The foreshadowing is effected by the insertion of, in the wo...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online-ссылка: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Итог: | Using the tools of narratology and literary linguistics, I argue that Munro deftly foreshadows and prepares for the revelation her protagonist confronts at the story’s conclusion: that she has been duped and exploited by her married lover. The foreshadowing is effected by the insertion of, in the words of Judith Maclean Miller, “bits and pieces of information that appear here and there, floating through the telling of the story, many of them unspoken, coded, resonating through silences.” I conclude my essay with a discussion of the three different endings of “Corrie,” which appeared in three different publications: I suggest that the differences reveal much of Munro’s narrative strategies. |
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