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“Autobiographical in Feeling But Not in Fact”: the Finale of Alice Munro’s Dear Life

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Ładuniuk M.

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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2015

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vol. 50

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issue 2-3

141-153

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Alice Munro has always been known for reworking personal material in her stories. On numerous occasions she openly admitted to adopting some of her real experiences into her fiction, yet at the same time she declared that her writing remains fictional, not autobiographical. However, the writer’s attitude seems to have changed with the publication of Dear Life (2012), supposedly the last book in her career. In the note preceding the last four stories in the collection, she suggests that they might constitute her autobiography. This article discusses “The Eye,” “Night,” “Voices” and “Dear Life” in relation to Munro’s biography. It reflects on the narrative techniques the author uses to create the impression of authenticity and autobiographicality in the stories. It also aims to answer the question whether they should be indeed classified as Munro’s autobiography.

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Images of Migrants in Alice Munro's Short Stories: Dialogue Between Cultures

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Vorontsova K.

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

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2020

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issue 1

4-13

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This paper focuses on the issues of the mediating role of English language and specific accents in the process of communication between Canadians and migrants from Europe. The author uses methods of close reading to reveal a variety of specific social patterns illustrating different levels of interpersonal attitudes in dialogues with migrants on the material of short stories from the collection Runaway (2004) by Alice Munro. While depicting Aliens, the writer utilises speech characterization as one of the most important artistic tools. Furthermore, in the short stories by Alice Munro, an attitude to people who speak differently becomes a “litmus paper” to portray the decaying intellectual life of the New World.

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W Kanadzie, w domu, w kuchni, na linoleum – o opowiadaniach Alice Munro

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Izdebska A.

Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2015

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vol. 6

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The article analyzes two texts by the Canadian Nobel Prize winner, Alice Munro – Lives of Girls and Women and Who Do You Think You Are? Both books draw from the Bildungsroman tradition, and given such origin, they rather seem to represent the genre of short story novel than that of short stories collection. The article’s author concentrates on the manner in which Munro depicts the coming of age of protagonists while using certain aspects of space and the Gothic convention.

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“Autobiographical in Feeling But Not in Fact”: the Finale of Alice Munro’s Dear Life

Images of Migrants in Alice Munro's Short Stories: Dialogue Between Cultures

W Kanadzie, w domu, w kuchni, na linoleum – o opowiadaniach Alice Munro