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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 Series editor Mirosław Pawlak, Kalisz, Poland More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13879 ł Miros awa Buchholtz Editor Alice Munro Understanding, Adapting and Teaching 123 Editor MirosławaBuchholtz NicolausCopernicus University Toruń Poland ISSN 2193-7648 ISSN 2193-7656 (electronic) Second LanguageLearningandTeaching ISSN 2365-967X ISSN 2365-9688 (electronic) Issues inLiterature andCulture ISBN978-3-319-24059-6 ISBN978-3-319-24061-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24061-9 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015954585 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2016 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt fromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained hereinorforanyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerlandispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia (www.springer.com) Acknowledgments I would like to thank Nancy Earle and Tyler Kessel, the reviewers of the present volume, for their valuable advice and encouragement. Their kind interest in this project and readiness to read the subsequent chapters in spite of other pressing commitments were very reassuring. v 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 vii viii Contents 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 ix x EditorandContributors 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 contemporary 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.

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The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two other ways of looking at her fiction: the perspectives of film adaptation and of pedagogy. The book is divided into three p