Transient Questions : : New Essays on Mavis Gallant / / edited by Kristjana Gunnars.
Mavis Gallant has been a leading literary figure in Canada since her first short story, published in 1951, and has grown to be considered internationally as a modern master of the genre. Her writing is nuanced, sensitive, gifted, deep and concise. She leaves everything open for the hidden potential...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures ; 74 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- An Intangible Cure for Death by Homesickness:
- Gerald LYNCH: Mavis Gallant's Canadian Short-Story Cycle "Linnet Muir"
- Di BRANDT: Fascists, Mothers and Provisional Others in Mavis Gallant's The Pegnitz Junction
- John LENT: Transitory Closure in Mavis Gallant's In Transit: A Writer's View of the Transition from Modern
- to Postmodern Poetics in Short Fiction.
- Peter STEVENS: An "I" for an Evanescent Eye: The Personal and the Private - Autobiography, Essay and Story
- Maria NOËLLENG: Women Out of Fleeting Place: Hotel Living in Mavis Gallant's Short Stories
- Nicole CÔTÉ: Mavis Gallant's Shifting Poetics of Exile: The Ironic and the Oneiric in Two Early Short Stories.
- Per WINTHER: The Volatile Eye of the Beholder: Voice, Epiphany and Grace in the Short Fiction of Mavis Gallant
- Neil BESNER: Re-Reading "The Moslem Wife": Fugitive Irony in the Light of Imagination
- Simone VAUTHIER: Framing the Passing Recalcitrance of "The Wedding Ring"
- Notes on Contributors.