Alice Munro

Understanding, Adapting and Teaching

  • Mirosława Buchholtz
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Part of the Second Language Learning and Teaching book series (SLLT)

Also part of the Issues in Literature and Culture book sub series (ILC)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Reading and Interviewing of Alice Munro
    Mirosława Buchholtz
    Pages 1-9

  3. Understanding

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 11-11
      PDF
    2. Gender and Space in “The Albanian Virgin”
      Dorota Filipczak
      Pages 13-21
    3. Images of Past and Present: Memory and Identity in Alice Munro’s Short-Story Cycles
      Jędrzej Burszta
      Pages 23-35
    4. Missions and Explorers: “Amundsen” as a Key to Reading Alice Munro’s Other Stories
      Magdalena Ładuniuk
      Pages 37-47
    5. ‘Shockingly Like, and Unlike, Home’: Gothic Realism in the Progress of Love
      Tomasz Sikora
      Pages 49-64

  4. Adapting

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 65-65
      PDF
    2. Hateship Loveship, Adaptation
      Ewa Bodal, Nelly Strehlau
      Pages 67-74
    3. Del Jordan: Becoming a Writer
      Emilia Leszczyńska
      Pages 75-87
    4. “There Is a Change Coming […] in the Lives of Girls and Women.” Del Jordan’s and Catherine Sloper’s Ways to Independence
      Paula Suchorska
      Pages 89-103
    5. Works by Alice Munro in Textual and Editorial Scholarship: Through the Prism of Konrad Górski’s Study
      Grzegorz Koneczniak
      Pages 105-113

  5. Teaching

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 115-115
      PDF
    2. The Question of Sources: Teaching Texts Versus Hypotexts
      Héliane Ventura
      Pages 117-122
    3. Teaching Alice Munro in Canada
      David Staines
      Pages 123-124
    4. Alice Munro in Japan and Germany: Interviews
      Keiko Beppu, Anca-Raluca Radu
      Pages 125-130
    5. Teaching Alice Munro in Poland: Interviews
      Agnieszka Salska, Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich
      Pages 131-139
    6. Alice Munro at Polish Universities: An Analysis of Selected Academic Texts, Including BA, MA and PhD Theses
      Grzegorz Koneczniak
      Pages 141-149
    7. The Lesson of the Mistress: From “The Office” to “To Reach Japan”
      Mirosława Buchholtz
      Pages 151-161

About this book

Introduction

The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two other ways of looking at her fiction: the perspectives of film adaptation and of pedagogy. The book is divided into three parts which mirror the key words in the title: understanding, adapting and teaching. Part One consists of four articles on various aspects of Munro's short fiction from a literary perspective. Part Two - four essays - addresses editing and film adaptations of Munro's stories (both television and feature films). Part Three consists of an essay on didactic aspects of Munro's fiction and of several interviews with teachers of Canadian literature who have included stories by Munro in their syllabi

Keywords

2013 Nobel Prize Winner Alice Munro Canadian Short Story Film Adaptations Teaching of Literature

Editors and affiliations

  • Mirosława Buchholtz
    • 1
  1. 1.English DepartmentNicolaus Copernicus UniversityTorunPoland

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24061-9
  • Copyright Information Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Education
  • Print ISBN 978-3-319-24059-6
  • Online ISBN 978-3-319-24061-9
  • Series Print ISSN 2193-7648
  • Series Online ISSN 2193-7656
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