Titre en français

Story into Metastory: A Stylistic Analysis of Alice Munro's Metafictional Short Stories

Auteur

Plaza, Zuzanna

Directeur de recherche

Ventura, Héliane

Date de soutenance

11 juin 2019

Établissement

Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès

UFR ou composante

Département Etudes du Monde Anglophone (DEMA)

Diplôme

M2 Etudes anglophones

Sujet

Anglais

Mots-clés en français

alice munro

fiction

histoires courtes

métastory

métafiction

genre

phallocentrisme

narratologie stylistique

littérature canadienne

féministe critique littéraire

Mots-clés

alice munro

fiction

short stories

metastory

metafiction

gender

phallocentrism

narratology stylistics

canadian literature

feminist literary criticism

Résumé en français

The dissertation provides the narratological and stylistic analysis of Alice Munro's three metafictional short stories - "The Office," "Material," and "Fiction"- characterised by the strong presence of three women narrators and writers. The study focuses first on the feminist literary criticism that the stories received, analysing in detail the gendered and narrative conflict between woman as a writer and masculine phallocentric storytellers. The analysis concentrates further on metafictional techniques and devices deployed to challenge the issue of phallocentrism in literature, using narratology and stylistics to support the arguments. The primary goal of the study is to present a vast range of both metafictional and stylistic techniques used by Alice Munro in the three stories to demonstrate how, through the interrogative short story form, her narratives challenge the idea of the universality of a unique female experience as the only means to challenge phallocentrism.

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