"In the field of humorous writing for children an outstanding author-illustrator is Munro Leaf. According to Hardy R. Finch, then Book Review Editor of Scholastic Teacher, Leaf is a 'writer for all children of all ages.' He was selected as the subject of this study because as a child the present writer, although a foreigner to this country, enjoyed the Munro Leaf books, especially The Story of Ferdinand. Yet of the many books Munro Leaf has written for children, Children's Catalog, an authoritative list of approved books, recommends only nine titles. This fact further encouraged this writer to investigate the works of Munro Leaf. This writer hopes that a bio-bibliography of Munro Leaf may prove of some value to others in addition to being an educational experience. He will examine the books for young children by Munro Leaf and summarize the criticism of these publications as found in book reviews in an attempt to evaluate his juvenile work"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: Sarah Rebecca Reed, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references.

This study examines the reproduction of universal gender differences through the construction of masculine and feminine identities, the development of unconscious personality traits in an environment where women mother, and the role of external influences such as sex-role ideology and socialization outside the home using feminist developmental theory and two texts, Hemingway's The Nick Adams Stories and Munro's Lives of Girls and Women. Chapter 1 establishes masculine and feminine characteristics of gender identity through a close examination of Dr. Henry Adams and Ida Jordan, the parents of the two protagonists. Chapter 2 looks at the development of unconscious gender traits through the development of Nick Adams and Del Jordan. The role of the mother-child relationship and the father-child relationship in the creation of personality will also be examined. Chapter 3 examines the result of this process, the mature Nick Adams and Del Jordan, in their respective environments outside the home, paying particular attention to the protagonists' responses to social expectations of role behaviour. In conclusion, this study contends that gender and personality traits are reproduced through social organization and socialization and may be reinforced through literature. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Thesis (M.Sc.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Zoology, 1972.

Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2008.

2013 års nobelpristagare i litteratur var Alice Munro. Hennes noveller är ofta enkla skildringar av ”vanliga människors liv” och hur specifika händelser från t.ex. deras barndom på ett mer eller mindre tydligt sätt påverkat deras liv i olika riktningar. Hur de berörts och utvecklats av dessa. Det handlar om moraliska dilemman och livsöden. Munro lyckas i sitt berättande beröra många av de existentiella frågorna, och ändå möta berättelserna "rakt upp och ner”; hon moraliserar inte över händelserna hon målar upp. Jag tyckete mig dock bakom de moraliska valen och livsödena skymta skuld och skuldkänslor i berättelserna, även om det inte uttalades. Det fick mig att tänka kring skuld… varför är det så svårt att tala om? Vad är skuld överhuvudtaget? När möter vi den, och varför? Jag bestämde mig för att börja nysta i dessa frågor, åtminstone litegrann. Resultatet blev denna uppsats, som berör ämnet skuld – vad det är, och vilken roll det kan ha i berättelser om mänskligt liv.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-02-28Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:47:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 minaki_sm_me_arafcl.pdf: 715175 bytes, checksum: 15b728652dc0abcb85b8db6fdfac4d2f (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo principal analisar, sob o ponto de vista da voz narrativa, dois contos: Monsieur Les Deux Chapeaux e Carried Away, presentes, respectivamente, nas coletâneas The Progress of Love (1986) e Open Secrets (1994), da escritora canadense Alice Munro, contista cuja obra tem como pano de fundo a vida rural e semi-rural de Ontário. Neste trabalho, busca-se mostrar, tomando como ponto de partida os conceitos teóricos de Genette [19--], as implicações e os efeitos da voz dos narradores dos contos em questão, caracterizados pelo uso de recursos em comum, como narração heterodiegética, tempo nãocronológico, memória e retrospecções. A atenção desta pesquisa é voltada também à presença de outras vozes, que fazem contraponto com a voz da instância narrativa. Essas vozes, possibilitando a criação de um universo polifônico, fazem-se presentes não apenas pelas personagens que se manifestam, mas também por intertextualidades e interdiscursividades, promotoras de efeitos diferenciados e geradoras de incertezas quanto ao sentido do relato. Além dos contos mencionados, é preciso lembrar que outras narrativas de The Progress of Love e Open Secrets foram incluídas neste estudo, a fim de que se pudesse demonstrar as estratégias mais comuns e peculiares adotadas por Munro na construção de suas histórias. / The aim of this work is to analyze, according to the point of view of the narrator's voice, two short stories - Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux and Carried Away, each one included, respectively, in the collections The Progress of Love (1986) and Open Secrets (1994). Both short stories were written by Alice Munro, a Canadian author whose works present as scenery the country and semi-country life of Ontario, her homeland. In this paper, the objective is to show, taking into consideration Genette's theory about narration, the effects of the narrators' voice of both compositions, which are marked by the use of resources in common, as heterodiegetic narration, memory and retrospection. Besides the narrator's voice, this work also calls attention to other voices which constitute Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux and Carried Away. Those voices, responsible for creating a polyphonic universe, are represented not only by the characters' voices, but also by intertextualities and interdiscoursivities, resources which provoke a series of effects, generating uncertainties in the meaning of the narration. Beyond Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux and Carried Away, its worth mentioning that this work also includes the study of other short stories of The Progress of Love and Open Secrets, in order to show the most relevant strategies used by Alice Munro in the construction of her narratives.

References to stories and storytelling appear throughout Alice Munro's five short story cycles: DANCE OF THE HAPPY SHADES, LIVES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN, SOMETHING I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TELL YOU, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? and THE. MOONS OF JUPITER. This thesis contends that stories--mentioned briefly or recounted at length--provide counterpoint to experience for Munro's characters. Oral and written stories influence them throughout life, but especially in youth, when they eagerly identify with, and imitate, fictional figures. In LIVES and WHO, storytelling becomes central because their protagonists are a writer and an actress. Occasionally, the narrators in all five works reflect on the difficulty of expressing truth in fiction, but SOMETHING raises this issue repeatedly. By embedding stories within her narratives, Munro imitates the workings of memory; moreover, she draws attention to her narratives as texts rather than glimpses of reality. A feminine perspective on narrative gradually emerges, in which the woman narrator sees her task not as imposing order, but as discovering order that already exists. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

This dissertation offers a new exploration of the relationship between geographic awareness and literary realism in Alice Munro’s depictions of female identity-formation. It demonstrates how Munro, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, uses the discourse of place and positionality not just as a Canadian regionalist writer, but also as a writer implicitly concerned with the paradigms of intersectionality as advanced in Susan Stanford Friedman’s 1998 book Mappings and in the recent work of feminist geographers. These theories shed light on Munro’s efforts to represent her female protagonists’ individual and communal identities authentically. Following an introduction in which I explain how Munro’s cautious statements about feminism relate to these recent geopolitical theories, my chapters examine groupings of Munro’s stories through concepts associated with locational feminism. Chapter 2 compares Munro to one of her major influences, the American regionalist writer Willa Cather, through the concept of geopolitical space. Chapter 3 applies this concept more closely to Munro’s portrayals of female maturation in Lives of Girls and Women and The Moons of Jupiter, focusing on a thematic tension between belonging and alienation. Munro sees women’s dilemmas of identity as deeply connected to their sense of place and their definitions of their home places and positions. Chapter 4 examines how issues of place and space, especially regarding what Munro calls “home ground,” affect the construction of relational identity in the title story of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, and in several stories from the collection Runaway. Chapter 5 demonstrates how Munro employs the tropes of women’s mobility and travel -- usually seen as tools of empowerment -- to depict their unsettled lives, characterized by instability, insecurity and imbalance. Because these experiences have to do with multiple nodes of difference, Munro’s depictions of mobility as a mixed reality overlap with recent theories of transnational feminism. Chapter 6 deals with the question of narrative agency vis-à-vis locational identity and positionality in her collection, Who Do You Think You Are? In sum, the dissertation argues that Munro’s realistic focus on women’s lives and experiences, and her emphasis on strategic place-awareness rather than the goal of equality, does carry an inspiring message to her readers about the nature of empowerment in today’s world.

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