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A textual analysis of the narrative process by which mourning is portrayed in the short fiction of contemporary writers Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro. Draws on models from Woolf and Joyce to develop a poetics of elegy that can be applied to other modern fiction-elegists. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Figuring Grief: Gallant, Munro and the Poetics of Elegy FROM THE CRITICS
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A textual analysis of the narrative process by which mourning is portrayed in the short fiction of contemporary writers Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro. Draws on models from Woolf and Joyce to develop a poetics of elegy that can be applied to other modern fiction-elegists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)