ENGL 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alice Munro, Southern Ontario Gothic, Wingham, Ontario
31 May 2016
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Decorated writer : - 3 governor general awards. 1st canadian (woman) to win nobel prize of literature. Can do big things on small scale. Spent a long time in victoria (20 years) Known for being a domestic housewife writer. Opened a bookstore with her first husband: munro"s books. Never really wrote novels : lives of girls and women linked short stories. Page met, coincidentally alice munro at the bookstore. Mirroring fiona and grant courtship ; fiona and aubrey courtship. Suggests that we are on the other side of the mountain. Suggests child"s play fiona is playing a joke. Story about memory ; both fiona and grant have difficulty remembering. Infantilizing fiona : her being sent to a home suggests cyclical nature of life. Second floor : people keep saying that fiona"s never going there. Meadow lake vs. swamp inside vs. outside. Jump from 20yrs old to 70yrs old. Similar to what fiona is going through.
