Double-voicing the Canadian short story : Birdsell, Findley, Hodgins, King, MacLeod, Senior, Shields, Vanderhaeghe /

Double-voicing the Canadian short story : Birdsell, Findley, Hodgins, King, MacLeod, Senior, Shields, Vanderhaeghe /

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Author / Creator:	Kruk, Laurie, 1962- author.
Imprint:	Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Canadian literature collection Canadian literature collection.
Subject:	Short stories, Canadian -- History and criticism. Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Canadian fiction. Short stories, Canadian. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11383536

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ISBN:	9780776623252 0776623257 9780776623269 0776623265 9780776623245 0776623249
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is a comparative study of eight nationally and internationally-acclaimed Canadian short story writers in English: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. It addresses an important gap in contemporary Canadian literary criticism by focusing specifically on their short fiction. This book is the first work to address this cohort of authors in textual dialogue with one another. Drawing on narratological and formalist theory, including an interpretation of Bakhtin's important discussion of the "dialogical" nature of fiction, the author examines the multiple ways and means whereby this "double-voicing" manifests itself in the authors' stories. In the broadest sense, it operates at the level of theme, in representational or philosophical ironizing of dominant societal discourses and hegemonic values. This then opens up the question of who speaks--how is the "vision" conveyed by the "voice" of the story?--which the author terms thematics of focalization. This choice shapes the literary mode, or style, of the story, including the "double-voicing" created through irony, satire and parody. Finally, at the discursive or linguistic level, "double-voicing" appears in terms of the dialogizing of language itself. Neither programmatic nor reductive, the author's approach offers a thoughtful juxtaposition of select stories on themes of gender, mothers and sons, family storytelling, marriage, sexuality, and (the politics of) identity in order to show their distinctive "double-voicing" of these issues and relationships. As a multi-author study, its scope is broad and its readings valuable to Canadian literature as a whole, making the book of interest to students of Canadian literature or the short story, and to readers of both."--
Other form:	Kruk, Laurie, 1962- Double-voicing the Canadian short story.: Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, [2016] ©2016 Canadian literature collection Canadian literature collection

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Summary:	Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature going to Alice Munro, the "master of the contemporary short story," this art form is receiving the recognition that has been its due and--as this book demonstrates--Canadian writers have long excelled in it. From theme to choice of narrative perspective, from emphasis on irony, satire and parody to uncovering the multiple layers that make up contemporary Canadian English, the short story provides a powerful vehicle for a distinctively Canadian "double-voicing". The stories discussed here are compelling reflections on our most intimate roles and relationships and Kruk offers a thoughtful juxtaposition of themes of gender, mothers and sons, family storytelling, otherness in Canada and the politics of identity to name but a few. As a multi-author study, Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is broad in scope and its readings are valuable to Canadian literature as a whole, making the book of interest to students of Canadian literature or the short story, and to readers of both.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780776623252 0776623257 9780776623269 0776623265 9780776623245 0776623249