Uncovering the Grotesque in Fiction by Alice Munro and Gabrielle Roy.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Hutchison, Lorna
- Source
- Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en Littérature Canadienne; 2008, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p187-210, 14p
- Subject
- FICTION
GROTESQUE
AESTHETICS
SHORT story (Literary form)
DUALITY (Logic)
LIFE
DEATH
- Language
- ISSN
- 03806995
The article reports on the grotesque aesthetic in a fiction by Alice Munro and Gabrielle Roy. It states that the two quintessential characteristics of the grotesque are duality and deformity. Munro creates the aesthetic through depicting contradictory states of life and death, or life and terminal illness and in which the beginning and the end of life are linked just like in the short story "The Love of a Good Woman," while Roy's realist fiction often centers on social and psychological concerns. The author notes that both of Munro's and Roy's writings contain elements of grotesque.