Alice Munro: Understanding, Adapting and Teaching

161 Pages·2016·1.85 MB·English

by  Mirosława Buchholtz (eds.)

Second Language Learning and Teaching
Issues in Literature and Culture
Mirosława Buchholtz Editor
Alice Munro
Understanding,
Adapting and Teaching
Second Language Learning and Teaching
Issues in Literature and Culture
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Mirosław Pawlak, Kalisz, Poland
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Toruń
Poland
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
Reading and Interviewing of Alice Munro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Mirosława Buchholtz
Part I Understanding
Gender and Space in “The Albanian Virgin”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Dorota Filipczak
Images of Past and Present: Memory and Identity
in Alice Munro’s Short-Story Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Jędrzej Burszta
Missions and Explorers: “Amundsen” as a Key to Reading
Alice Munro’s Other Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Magdalena Ładuniuk
‘Shockingly Like, and Unlike, Home’: Gothic Realism in the Progress
of Love. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Tomasz Sikora
Part II Adapting
Hateship Loveship, Adaptation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Ewa Bodal and Nelly Strehlau
Del Jordan: Becoming a Writer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Emilia Leszczyńska
“There Is a Change Coming […] in the Lives of Girls and Women.”
Del Jordan’s and Catherine Sloper’s Ways to Independence. . . . . . . . . 89
Paula Suchorska
Works by Alice Munro in Textual and Editorial Scholarship:
Through the Prism of Konrad Górski’s Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Grzegorz Koneczniak
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Part III Teaching
The Question of Sources: Teaching Texts Versus Hypotexts . . . . . . . . . 117
Héliane Ventura
Teaching Alice Munro in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
David Staines
Alice Munro in Japan and Germany: Interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Keiko Beppu and Anca-Raluca Radu
Teaching Alice Munro in Poland: Interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Agnieszka Salska and Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich
Alice Munro at Polish Universities: An Analysis of Selected
Academic Texts, Including BA, MA and PhD Theses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Grzegorz Koneczniak
The Lesson of the Mistress: From “The Office”
to “To Reach Japan” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Mirosława Buchholtz
Editor and Contributors
About the Editor
Mirosława Buchholtz is professor of English and director of the English
Department at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Her research
interests include American and Canadian literature, postcolonial studies,
auto/biography, translation studies, film adaptation, and children’s literature. She
haspublishedsixmonographs,includingCanadianPasswords:DiasporicFictions
into the Twenty-First Century (2008), edited and co-edited 14 books, including
Obraz Kanady w Polsce [The Image of Canada in Poland] (2003), Postcolonial
Subjects: Canadian and Australian Perspectives (2004), Polska w Kanadzie,
Kanada w Polsce [Poland in Canada, Canada in Poland] (2008), Państwo-
naród-tożsamość w dyskursach kulturowych Kanady [State-Nation-Identity in
Canada’s Cultural Discourses] (2010), Alice Munro: wprowadzenie do twórczości
[Introduction to Alice Munro] (2015), and Alice Munro: Reminiscence,
Interpretation, Adaptation and Comparison (2015). She is the author of numerous
articles and series editor of CANADIANA (Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek) and
Dis/Continuities (Peter Lang Verlag). Since 2012, she has been a member of the
Polish Accreditation Committee.
About the Contributors
Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich is professor of English and director of English
StudiesInstituteatSWPSUniversityofSocialSciencesandHumanitiesinWarsaw.
Herresearchandteachingfocus onAmericanliterature,American culturalstudies,
cross-cultural communication,womenauthorsandJewishstudies.Shehaswritten,
amongothers,amonographontheroleofAmericanliteratureinteachereducation
in Poland—Literatura amerykańska w kształceniu nauczycieli języka angielskiego
[American literature in teacher education in Poland, 2003]. She has published
extensively and has also been an editor and co-editor of twelve book publications,
includingfour-volumeseriesonAmericanwomenpoets,three-volumeseriesonthe
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canon of American literature, and two books on Jewish studies for Peter Lang in
Warsaw Studies in Jewish History and Memory for which she is one of the
co-editors.
KeikoBeppu isProfessorEmeritaatKobeCollege,Japan.Herrecentpublications
include A Literary History of the United States: From the Colonial to the
Postcolonial(co-editedwithKazukoWatanabe,1989,rev.ed.2000),HenryJames
and His Bedfellows (co-edited with Shigemi Satomi, 2004), and translations of
Robert L. Gale’s A Henry James Encyclopedia (2007) and Dear Munificent
Friends: Henry James’s Letters to Four Women (2013).
Ewa Bodal is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of English of Nicolaus
Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Her research interests center on contem-
porary Canadian literature, especially the issues connected with postcolonialism
and gender studies. She is currently working on her Ph.D. thesis in that field.
Jędrzej Burszta holds M.A. in cultural studies (2011, Institute of Polish Culture)
and American studies (2013, American Studies Center) from the University of
Warsaw.HeisaPh.D.studentattheUniversityofSocialSciencesandHumanities
(SWPS) in Warsaw. Fields of interest include American studies, anthropology of
literature, ethnography, and science fiction studies.
Dorota Filipczak teaches contemporary literatures in English and cultural studies
in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of Łódź. Her
doctoral dissertation “The Valley of the Shadow of Death”: Biblical Intertext in
Malcolm Lowry’s Fiction was published in the Malcolm Lowry Review at Wilfrid
Laurier University (Fall 1998/Spring 1999); her postdoctoral book Unheroic
Heroines: The Portrayal of Women in the Writings of Margaret Laurence was
published by Łódź University Press (2007). Her publications also appeared in
Literature and Theology, Routledge and Springer. She was one of the five inter-
national applicants to win the Research Award on the occasion of 25 years of
Canadian Studies programs at DFAIT of Canada. In 1999–2002, she was on the
advisory board of Literature and Theology, a journal published by Oxford
University Press. She is editor in chief of Text Matters: A Journal of Literature,
TheoryandCulture,publishedbyŁódźUniversityPressand(electronically)byDe
Gruyter. She has published five volumes of poetry.
Grzegorz Koneczniak is assistant professor in the English Department of
NicolausCopernicusUniversityinToruń,Poland,whereheteachesliterary theory
and criticism, colonial and postcolonial aspects of Anglo-Irish literature, and
postcolonial theater. His research interests include postcolonial literatures, post-
colonialtheater,Anglo-Irishliterature,literary theory,andcomparativestudies.He
is the author of Women on Stage and the Decolonisation of Ireland.
Counter-Discursiveness in the Drama of the Irish Literary Revival (1892–1926)
(2011, based on his doctoral dissertation) and articles dealing with Irish
postcoloniality.