"Anything Was Possible" : Gaps, Hypotheses, and Multiple Meanings in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00136627" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00136627 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/journals/ostravajournal/16-1/OJoEP_2024_1_Studena.pdf" target="_blank" >https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/journals/ostravajournal/16-1/OJoEP_2024_1_Studena.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/OJoEP.2024.16.0001" target="_blank" >10.15452/OJoEP.2024.16.0001</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Anything Was Possible" : Gaps, Hypotheses, and Multiple Meanings in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"
Original language description
Through a literary analysis of Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” (1999), the article explores the theme of indeterminacy and gaps in the text and their impact on readers’ interpretation. Drawing on the concepts of Iser’s implied reader, Kukkonen’s embodied reader, and Abbot’s acceptance of unknowability, the article reveals how Munro engages readers in constructing hypotheses and continuously challenges them by introducing new insights, prompting revisions of interpretations. By exploring the deliberate indeterminacies in Munro’s narrative, this study aims to elucidate the interplay between authorial intention and the reader’s interpretive agency. The article also mentions the film adaptation of Munro’s short story by the Canadian director Sarah Polley, Away from Her (2006), and highlights the use of indeterminacy within the visual medium.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ostrava Journal of English Philology
ISSN
1803-8174
e-ISSN
2571-0257
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
5-16
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85200327180