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  title info:
    title: Ethics and affect in the fiction of Alice Munro
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 250 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Amelia DeFalco, Lorraine York, editors.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Munro, Alice
      name part: 1931-
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Ethics in literature
  classification: PR9199.3.M8 Z596 2018
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism
  identifier: 3319906437
  identifier: 9783319906430
  identifier: 2018940744
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180402
    record change date: 20190122133952.0
    record identifier: in00003998571