Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story - Programme Thursday October 2

9:00 Welcome Address 9:30 INTRODUCTION

10:00 KEYNOTE HÉLIANE VENTURA (University of Toulouse2-Le Mirail) Dance of Happy Polysemy: the Reverberations of Alice Munro’s Language

Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 STORYBRICKS Chair: Janice Kulyk Keefer MARY CONDÉ (University of London) Literary Allusions in the Short Stories of Alice Munro MONICA BOTTEZ (University of Bucharest) Masterful Narrative Event Ordering in Alice Munro’s “Too Much Happiness” BIANCAMARIA RIZZARDI () “A story is not like a road to follow …”: Narration and Discourse in Alice Munro's Early Fiction

Lunch

15.00-16:00 GENDER AND GENRE Chair: Sabrina Francesconi MAJA CUK (Braca Karic University) Runaway: Munro’s Rewriting of Greek Mythology as a Socially Symbolic Act PAPIYA LAHIRI (Vanasthali University) Getting into the Heart of the Matter. A Critical Reading of Alice Munro’s ‘Open Spaces’ REBEKKA SCHUH (University of Graz) Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: Alice Munro and the Epistolary Mode

16.00-17.00 GENDER AND VIOLENCE Chair: Margaret Steffler CORINNE BIGOT (University Paris Ouest Nanterre) Life and Death, Lines of Flight and Patterns of Entrapment: “Dimensions” and “Runaway” SIMON J. DANIEL (Royal University of Bhutan) Being and Becoming in Alice Munro’s Who do you think you are?: An Analysis of Assault, Battery and Suppressed Expressiveness

Pizza party

Friday 3 October 2014

9:00-10:00: Keynote JANICE KULYK KEEFER (The University of Guelph) Too Much Curiosity

10.00-11.30: MEMORY, HISTORY AND/AS STORYTELLING Chair: Héliane Ventura GIANFRANCA BALESTRA () Alice Munro: The Anatomy of Memory PILAR SOMACARRERA (University of Madrid) History, Autobiography and Colonial Inferiority in Alice Munro’s Recent Short Fiction SABRINA FRANCESCONI () Alice Munro as the Master of Storytelling

Coffee break

11:45-13.15 Food, Animals and Death Chair: Mary Condé ELEONORA SASSO (University of Ragusa) The Canadian Thought Fox: Alice Munro’s Animalising Imagination CRISTIANA PUGLIESE (LUMSA University) Cold Comfort: Food and Temptation in “Amundsen" by Alice Munro CARLA COMELLINI () Recurring Images of Disease, Death and Food in Alice Munro’s Narrative

Lunch

14.30- 16.00 Canada (within and beyond) Chair: Michelle Gadpaille CYNTHIA SUGARS (University of Ottawa), PAUL KEEN (Carleton University) Local Knowledge and International Celebrity: Alice Munro’s Paradox of Home OLGA FEDOSYUK (Russian Association for Canadian Studies) Alice Munro’s Short Fiction: Transcultural Perspectives ANGELA BUONO (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’) La Nouvelle et l’Imaginaire Pancanadien

16.00-17:30 Writing the Canadian landscape Chair: Simon J. Daniel MARGARET STEFFLER (Trent University) Taking Care of the Surface: The Physiography of Natural and Bodily Landscapes in the Return Home in The View from Castle Rock EVA ZSIZSMANN (Károli University of the Reformed Church) Spatiality in Alice Munro’s Dear Life EDVIGE PUCCIARELLI () Intersemiotic Description of the Canadian Landscape in Alice Munro's fiction.

AISC meeting

Dinner

Saturday 4 October 2014 ore 9:00 MUNRO IN OTHER LANGUAGES Chair: Biancamaria Rizzardi MICHELLE GADPAILLE, TJAŠA MOHAR (University of Maribor) Syntactical Deep Holes: The Aesthetics of Opening in Munro’s Stories ISABELLA MARTINI () Translating Alice Munro's Short Fiction: Suggesting Linguistic Tools and Strategies for a Case Study DEBORAH SAIDERO () Munro in Translation

Closing Remarks

Urban itinerary: Caravaggio in Naples