Alice Munro sau povestirea ca monografie a liminalului
Alice Munro, or the Short-Story as a Monography of the Liminal

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we provide an overview of some of the distinctive characteristics of the short stories of Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Through a close reading of a number of her representative works, we attempt at highlighting the intersections between them and the tradition of the modern Gothic (in particular, the Southern Ontario Gothic), as well as the unique way in which the Canadian writer approaches the problematic of the liminal (understood as the locus where the material and spiritual are conflated) by rooting the narrative act in the fragile space delimited by “punctuating” and “shifting”.

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