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“The Way the Stars Really Do Come Out at Night”: The Trick of Representation in Alice Munro’s “The Moons of Jupiter”

January 29, 2015

By Tim MaIntyre
Abstract:

This article focuses on Alice Munro’s "The Moons of Jupiter," a key work in her oeuvre. The article analyzes the story as a formal, artistic achievement, one which moves from separation, to unity, to separation, thereby providing a cathartic staging of emotion. The article also examines the subtle metafictive sensibility that runs through "Moons" without compromising its mimetic effect and follows its philosophical examination of the power and inadequacy of representation.

This article ““The Way the Stars Really Do Come Out at Night”: The Trick of Representation in Alice Munro’s “The Moons of Jupiter”” originally appeared in Strategic Nationalisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 73-88.

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