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Article: Temples and tabernacles: alternative religions in the fictional microcosms of Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro.
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- International Fiction Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Some of the greatest Canadian novelists are regionalists who convey Canadian identity through developing fictional microcosms. Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro follow in the tradition of novelists such as Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, and William Faulkner, who created their fictional kingdoms of Waverley, Wessex, and Yoknapatawpha County. Laurence, Davies, and Munro each create a fictional microcosm in Manawaka, Deptford, and Jubilee--based on their actual hometowns of Neepawa, Manitoba, and Thamesville and Wingham, Ontario, respectively--that encapsulates in miniature what they see as defining features of a typical Canadian community.
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