Runaway Classicists: Anne Carson and Alice Munro’s “Juliet” Stories
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argues that the key to understanding her short stories is the fact of her "having grown up, and of having lived in, and of having left, and of having remembered, and of having returned to, and above all of having made texts out of Huron County, Ontario" ("Introduction" 2).Taking Munro's 1974 story "Home" as paradigmatic, Thacker argues that Munro's fiction is "patently autobiographical and metafictional; it reflects the circumstances of Munro's return to Ontario after living in British Columbia for twenty years" (4).He thus "knowingly" conflates "the narrator/Munro" (4) and seeks to understand Munro's narrative technique through author statements, archival drafts of stories, and maps of Huron County.Perhaps to counteract such biographical readings, Munro took the extraordinary step of distinguishing her fictional stories from her memoirs in the 2006 foreword to The View from Castle Rock.Thacker, in turn, has subsequently noted that Munro's recent story collections "see individual lives through a wider angle of vision, introducing overarching patterns intimated through allusions to Greek myths, Shakespeare, and other literary texts, which seem to overlap present circumstances, shifting the frame of reference into further dimensions of imaginative apprehension, though with no ultimate revelation" ("Quartet" 375).Munro thereby stresses the fictional quality of even her first person narratives.2 This essay will complicate biographical readings of Munro's work by demonstrating that the character of Juliet, featured in three linked stories in Munro's 2004 collection Runaway, reflects Munro's interest in the poet and classicist Anne Carson as much as it does Munro's biographical experience.However, since such biographical readings are highly speculative, the second half of this essay will employ formal analysis to demonstrate that scholars
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