Homecoming, You and Genre in “Mlle. Dias de Corta”
This paper focuses on style and aesthetic risk in a single Mavis Gallant story, “Mlle. Dias de Corta.” It considers the narrative trajectory in this story that is in letter form but is a letter that can never be received because the intended recipient’s whereabouts are unknown. In examining Gallant’...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2022-12-01
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| description | This paper focuses on style and aesthetic risk in a single Mavis Gallant story, “Mlle. Dias de Corta.” It considers the narrative trajectory in this story that is in letter form but is a letter that can never be received because the intended recipient’s whereabouts are unknown. In examining Gallant’s story, I consider the vast emotional terrain the narrator traverses, while also looking at generic considerations, you-narrative and the foundations on which the narrator’s apparently sudden change in character are based.
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f334a60442344cc8532c56c30a88b2b2023-01-18T08:45:47ZdeuUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Acta Neophilologica0567-784X2350-417X2022-12-01551-210.4312/an.55.1-2.89-101Homecoming, You and Genre in “Mlle. Dias de Corta”Jason Blake0University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, SloveniaThis paper focuses on style and aesthetic risk in a single Mavis Gallant story, “Mlle. Dias de Corta.” It considers the narrative trajectory in this story that is in letter form but is a letter that can never be received because the intended recipient’s whereabouts are unknown. In examining Gallant’s story, I consider the vast emotional terrain the narrator traverses, while also looking at generic considerations, you-narrative and the foundations on which the narrator’s apparently sudden change in character are based. https://journals.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/11242Mavis Gallantgenreshort storyyou-narrative |
| spellingShingle | Jason Blake Homecoming, You and Genre in “Mlle. Dias de Corta” Acta Neophilologica Mavis Gallant genre short story you-narrative |
| title | Homecoming, You and Genre in “Mlle. Dias de Corta” |
| title_full | Homecoming, You and Genre in “Mlle. Dias de Corta” |
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| title_short | Homecoming, You and Genre in “Mlle. Dias de Corta” |
| title_sort | homecoming you and genre in mlle dias de corta |
| topic | Mavis Gallant genre short story you-narrative |
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