10: Charting Alice Munro’s Terra Incognita: Punctuated Space in “Free Radicals”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. List of Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part 1. Conceptualizing Space and Place: Houses, Landscapes, and Territory
8. 1: Where Do You Think You Are? Alice Munro’s Open Houses 27
9. 2: “Whose House Is That?” Spaces of Metamorphosis in Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades, Who Do You Think You Are?, and The View from Castle Rock 41
10. 3: Mapping the Vernacular Landscape in Alice Munro’s “What Do You Want to Know For?” and Other Stories 63
11. 4: Stories in the Landscape Mode: A Reading of Alice Munro’s “Lives of Girls and Women,” “Walker Brothers Cowboy,” and “Lichen” 82
12. 5: “What Place Is This?” Alice Munro’s Fictional Places and Her Place in Fiction 100
13. 6: “The Emptiness in Place of Her”: Space, Absence, and Memory in Alice Munro’s Dear Life 119
14. 7: Down the Rabbit Hole: Revisiting the Topos of the Cave in Alice Munro’s Short Stories 133
15. Part II. Close Readings of Space and Place
16. 8: Spaces of Utopia and Spaces of Actuality in Alice Munro’s “Jakarta” 159
17. 9: Spatial Perspectives in Alice Munro’s “Passion” 171
18. 10: Charting Alice Munro’s Terra Incognita: Punctuated Space in “Free Radicals” 183
19. 11: Heterotopy in Alice Munro’s “In Sight of the Lake” 199
20. Bibliography 209
21. Contributors 225
22. Index 229