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Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro
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Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro Paperback - 2019

by Amelia Defalco (Editor); Lorraine York (Editor)


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Updates and expands the scholarly examinations of Alice Munro's work

Contributes to the study of affect theory and literary ethics as well as age and disability

Challenges perceptions and assessments of Alice Munro

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Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro's writing. The collection illustrates how Munro's short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical criticism, age studies, disability studies, animal studies, and posthumanism. These essays offer us an Alice Munro who is not the kindly Canadian icon reinforcing small-town verities who was celebrated and perpetuated in acts of national pedagogy with her Nobel Prize win; they ponder, instead, an edgier, messier Munro whose fictions of affective and ethical perplexities disturb rather than comfort. In Munro's fiction, unruly embodiments and affects interfere with normative identity and humanist conventions of the human based on reason and rationality, destabilizing prevailing gender and sexual politics, ethical responsibilities, and affective economies. As these essays make clear, Munro's fiction reminds us of the consequences of everyday affects and the extraordinary ordinariness of the ethical encounters we engage again and again.

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  • Title Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro
  • Author Amelia Defalco (Editor); Lorraine York (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2019-01-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9783030080631 / 3030080633
  • Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.56 in (21.01 x 14.81 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801

About the author

Amelia DeFalco is University Academic Fellow in Medical Humanities in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative (2010) and Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature (2016).


Lorraine York is Distinguished University Professor and Senator William McMaster Chair in Canadian Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Recent books include Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity (2013), and Reluctant Celebrity (Palgrave Macmillan 2018).

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