Alice Munro’s “Princess Ida”: Revisiting Alfred Tennyson, Marcel Proust, and others in Southwestern Ontario
Alice Munro’s second collection, Lives of Girls and Women (1971), provides a portrait of the artist as a young girl together with a portrait of the artist’s mother in the fictional or “apocryphal” town of Jubilee, in southwestern Ontario. The title of the third story, “Princess Ida,” is explicitly...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2014
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Alice Munro’s second collection, Lives of Girls and Women (1971), provides a portrait of the artist as a young girl together with a portrait of the artist’s mother in the fictional or “apocryphal” town of Jubilee, in southwestern Ontario. The title of the third story, “Princess Ida,” is explicitly indexed to Alfred Tennyson’s long poem “The Princess” (1847) since it refers to the pseudonym used by the narrator’s mother for the letters she sends to the local newspaper, the Jubilee Herald Adva... |
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