2024
"Anything Was Possible" : Gaps, Hypotheses, and Multiple Meanings in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
STUDENÁ, PavlínaBasic information
Original name
"Anything Was Possible" : Gaps, Hypotheses, and Multiple Meanings in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
Authors
STUDENÁ, Pavlína (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Ostrava Journal of English Philology, Ostrava, Ostravská univerzita, 2024, 1803-8174
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Field of Study
60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
References:
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/24:00136627
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-85200327180
Keywords in English
Alice Munro; indeterminacy; textual gaps; narrative ambiguity; reader interpretation; unreliable narrator
Tags
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International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 5/3/2025 14:54, Mgr. Pavla Martinková
Abstract
V originále
Through a literary analysis of Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” (1999), the article explores the theme of indeterminacy and gaps in the text and their impact on readers’ interpretation. Drawing on the concepts of Iser’s implied reader, Kukkonen’s embodied reader, and Abbot’s acceptance of unknowability, the article reveals how Munro engages readers in constructing hypotheses and continuously challenges them by introducing new insights, prompting revisions of interpretations. By exploring the deliberate indeterminacies in Munro’s narrative, this study aims to elucidate the interplay between authorial intention and the reader’s interpretive agency. The article also mentions the film adaptation of Munro’s short story by the Canadian director Sarah Polley, Away from Her (2006), and highlights the use of indeterminacy within the visual medium.
Links
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