Laurie Kruk
Biographic Data
| ID | 6814170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurie Kruk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kruk |
| SIGNATURE | KRUK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nipissing University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Speaking silences
My article offers a reading of Alice Munro’s ‘A Wilderness Station’ (1994) that draws on material culture theory. Inspired by Munro’s own Scottish family settlement in colonial Ontario, Munro’s epistolary narrative spans a century in its reconstruction of Canadian history. My reading looks at three defining ‘things’ shaping the narrative conflicts: letters, houses, cars. It thus highlights the silences in history around women’s voices, symbolized…
Innovation and Reflection in the New Millennium
“I think we all dress up every day of our lives....” (Wachtel 102). So declared Carol Shields upon the publication of Dressing Up for the Carnival. Its title story suggests a postmodernist philosophy, presenting a series of unrelated characters who project themselves into different roles, simply by pushing an empty baby carriage, carrying a mango, or donning a football helmet: public subjects shaped by a communal gaze. The omniscient narrator con…
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Innovation and Reflection in the New Millennium
“I think we all dress up every day of our lives....” (Wachtel 102). So declared Carol Shields upon the publication of Dressing Up for the Carnival. Its title story suggests a postmodernist philosophy, presenting a series of unrelated characters who project themselves into different roles, simply by pushing an empty baby carriage, carrying a mango, or donning a football helmet: public subjects shaped by a communal gaze. The omniscient narrator con…
Speaking silences
My article offers a reading of Alice Munro’s ‘A Wilderness Station’ (1994) that draws on material culture theory. Inspired by Munro’s own Scottish family settlement in colonial Ontario, Munro’s epistolary narrative spans a century in its reconstruction of Canadian history. My reading looks at three defining ‘things’ shaping the narrative conflicts: letters, houses, cars. It thus highlights the silences in history around women’s voices, symbolized…
Short Stories in Global Literature (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Canadian Identity and History (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Consolation (1 work) · Consumerism (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Focus (optics (1 work)