@inbook{10.3138/9781442682474.6,
 ISBN = {9781442613065},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442682474.6},
 abstract = {There is something particularly problematic about a fiction which proposes to call itselfReal Life. Far from simply appealing to and consolidating a kind of transparent reality, Munro′s initial title forLives of Girls and Womenalso announces a hesitation that runs throughout the course of her fiction. The titleReal Lifeposes difficulties because it simultaneously effaces and calls attention to the textual dimension of Munro′s art. Such a title confirms the mimetic tradition, but it does so only by challenging it, by reminding us, as readers, of the fact that what we are reading is, in fact, a},
 bookauthor = {AJAY HEBLE},
 booktitle = {The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence},
 pages = {43--73},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {ʹSo Many Created Worldsʹ: Lives of Girls and Women},
 year = {1994}
}