LEADER 04887nam 2200877 450 001 9910809066103321 005 20231206210824.0 010 $a1-282-00306-2 010 $a9786612003066 010 $a1-4426-8247-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442682474 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004496 035 $a(EBL)4672173 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001141425 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12385263 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001141425 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11090307 035 $a(PQKB)10544168 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000312089 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11211832 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312089 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10329305 035 $a(PQKB)11311354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417574 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600097 035 $a(DE-B1597)465044 035 $a(OCoLC)944177378 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442682474 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672173 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257852 035 $a(OCoLC)244764654 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105449 035 $a(PPN)183079930 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/fvg8qb 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/417574 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672173 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004496 100 $a20160923h19941994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe tumble of reason $eAlice Munro's discourse of absence /$fAjay Heble 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1994. 210 4$dİ1994 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-0617-5 311 $a1-4426-1306-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: The Disruption of Writing -- 1 Early 'Signs of Invasion': Dance of the Happy Shades -- 2 'So Many Created Worlds': Lives of Girls and Women -- 3 The Politics of Deferral: Power and Suspicion in Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You -- 4 Acknowledging the Nether Voices: Signs of Instability in Who Do You Think You Are? -- 5 Towards a Poetics of Surprise: 'Change and Possibility' in The Moons of Jupiter -- 6 'It's What I Believe': Patterns of Complicity in The Progress of Love 327 $a7 (Re)construction and/as Deception in Friend of My YouthConclusion: The Problem of an Ending -- NOTES -- WORKS CONSULTED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y 330 $aMuch 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. 606 $aWomen and literature$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zCanada 606 $aDiscourse analysis, Literary 607 $aCanada$2fast 608 $aLivres numeriques. 608 $aHistory. 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $ae-books. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPostmodernism (Literature) 615 0$aDiscourse analysis, Literary. 676 $a813.54 700 $aHeble$b Ajay$f1961-$0711946 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809066103321 996 $aThe tumble of reason$94116695 997 $aUNINA