In Canada, in the House, in the Kitchen, on the Linoleum Floor: About Alice Munro’s Short Stories Cover Image

W Kanadzie, w domu, w kuchni, na linoleum – o opowiadaniach Alice Munro
In Canada, in the House, in the Kitchen, on the Linoleum Floor: About Alice Munro’s Short Stories

Author(s): Agnieszka Izdebska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Canadian literature; short story novel; Bildungsroman; Alice Munro; Gothic; Southern Ontario Gothic; space; place; location

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 83-98
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish