Alice Drops Her Cigarette on the Floor . . .
Abstract: ?I HE HARDEST THING OF ALL to write about is yourself. For one thing — ifIyHoEu’re a fiction writer — ...
Alice Munro’s Willa Cather
Abstract: ?[HE FALL AND WINTER of 1927-28 proved a difficult time for Willa Cather: sheIHhaEd been forced to move from her ...
Alice Munro’s “Providence,” Second-Wave Feminism, and the (Im)possibilities of Reconciling Motherhood and Liberation
Abstract: Amidst the theoretical and discursive landscape of 1970s liberationist feminism, Alice Munro published her 1978 short-story cycle, Who Do You Think You Are? The seventh story in the collection, “Providence,” remains one of the earliest examples of Canadian prose which explicitly explores the conflicts inherent to women’s experiences of feminist liberation and motherhood, and is among Munro's least critically explored stories. “Providence” captures the tenuous and exquisite experience of single-mothering a young child, its difficulties and sacrifices, and the equally painful and (still) unspeakable choice to leave one’s maternal role behind. Munro's central protagonist ultimately chooses feminist liberation over motherhood, unable to reconcile her desire for personal autonomy and freedom from the patriarchal family with her daughter’s need to be mothered.
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Alienation and Identity: The Plays of Margaret Hollingsworth
Abstract: ANOTABLE ASPECT OF CANADIAN DRAMA is the strikingly large percentage of ranking dramatists who are women, and in this constellation ...
All Aboa-r-rd!
Abstract: ?LHE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHILDHOOD and adulthood is s o s i m p l e t h a t w ...
All Nature into Motion: John Sutherland’s Poetry
Abstract: … as if the sun Were singing to the world, he lay and heard His alter ego serenading him : ...
Alline and Bailey
Abstract: IN CURRENT ANTHOLOGIES sur- veying the development of Canadian literature, the two most commonly recog- nized poets from the 18th-century ...
Alternate Stories: The Short Fiction of Audrey Thomas and Margaret Atwood
Abstract: She knew now that almost certainly, whenever she saw a street musician, either he was blind or lame or leprous ...
Alzheimer’s, Ambiguity, and Irony: Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” and Sarah Polley’s Away from Her
Abstract: By offering an extended close reading of Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came over the Mountain” and Sarah Polley’s filmic adaption of this story, Away from Her, this paper traces the process whereby Munro’s and Polley’s narratives expand our understanding of the Lockean view of identity as “consciousness inhabiting a body.” More precisely, Munro’s and Polley’s texts shed light on Locke’s lesser known insights into the fraught relationship between memory and passions. By underscoring both the passionate, affective and embodied facets of remembering and forgetting and the intersubjective basis of meaning and identity, Munro’s and Polley’s works challenge Locke’s basic conception of an autonomous, rational self. In the process, both the story and the film deconstruct biomedical, mechanistic models by exposing the ironic instabilities and ambiguities associated with the experience of late-onset cognitive decline.
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Ambiguity and Paradox: A Conversation with Helen Weinzweig
Abstract: Helen Weinzweig is the author of two novels, Passing Ceremony (Anansi 1973), Basic Black with Pearls (Anansi 1980), and a ...