Speaking of Mirrors: Imagery and Narration in two Novellas by Mavis Gallant

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Author/collaborator
Title
Speaking of Mirrors: Imagery and Narration in two Novellas by Mavis Gallant
Abstract
The author notes that Green Water, Green Sky and "Its Image in the Mirror" illustrate forcefully two dominant technical elements in the predominantly modernist mode that persists in Montreal-born author Mavis Gallant's fiction -- subtlety of imagery and narrative voice. The author explains that the former contains the germ of much of Gallant's later writing, including the suggestive but unforced use of images that edge toward symbols but never become rigid or entirely predictable. In "Its Image in the Mirror," the author points out, Gallant's typical subtlety and ambiguity, those qualities that give her stories their elusive quality, arise not so much out of the complexity and suggestiveness of the imagery, as in Green Water, Green Sky, as from the questionable authority of the narrative presence.
Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne
Volume
Vol. 10
Issue
no. 1
Pages
99-104
Date
Winter 1985
Language
en
URL
Citation
Jewison, D.B. “Speaking of Mirrors: Imagery and Narration in Two Novellas by Mavis Gallant.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne Vol. 10, no. 1 (Winter 1985): 99–104. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/8025/9082.
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