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The Tumble of Reason - Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence (Paperback)
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The Tumble of Reason - Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence (Paperback)
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Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has
explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'. But her stories
frequently turn on what has been left out; they are rife with
unsent (unfinished) letters, with things people mean to, but do
not, say or tell. Ajay Heble's study focuses on Munro's involvement
with a 'discourse of absence' and suggests that our understanding
of these texts often depends not only on what happens in the
fiction, but also on what might have happened. Munro's stories
confer their meaning not simply by referring to an outer reality,
but also by bestowing upon the reader a stimulating wealth of
possibilities taken from what we might call a potential or absent
level of meaning. Characteristically, they articulate an
unresolvable tension between variants on these positions: between,
on the one hand, her delineation of a surface reality - a world
'out there' which we are invited to recognize as real and true -
and, on the other, her involvement with a discourse of absence that
challenges the very conventions within which her fiction operates.
Drawing on structuralist and post-structuralist theories of
language and its relation to meaning, knowledge, and systems of
power, and on theories of postmodernist fiction, Heble offers both
a careful reading of Munro's stories and a theoretical framework
for reading meanings in absence. His book extends recent
revisionist analysis and makes a valuable and original contribution
to the criticism on Munro.
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