Over more than forty years, Alice Munro's reputation has slowly grown to a point where she is today recognized as one of the finest living short story writers. This volume discusses her life and works.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Career, Life, and Influence.
1: On Alice Munro.
2: Biography of Alice Munro.
Critical Contexts.
3: Alice Munro: Critical Reception.
4: Doing Her Duty and Writing Her Life: Alice Munro's Cultural and Historical Context.
5: Seduction and Subjectivity: Psychoanalysis and the Fiction of Alice Munro.
6: Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro: Writers, Women, Canadians.
Critical Readings.
7: “My Mother's Laocoon Inkwell”: Lives of Girls and Women and the Classical Past.
8: Who Does Rose Think She Is? Acting and Being in The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose.
9: Alice Munro's The Progress of Love: Free (and) Radical.
10: Friend of My Youth: Alice Munro and the Power of Narrativity.
11: In Search of the Perfect Metaphor: The Language of the Short Story and Alice Munro's “Meneseteung”.
12: The Complex Tangle of Secrets in Alice Munro's Open Secrets.
13: The Houses That Alice Munro Built: The Community of The Love of a Good Woman.
14: Honest Tricks: Surrogate Authors in Alice Munro's Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
15: Narrative, Memory, and Contingency in Alice Munro's Runaway.
16: “Secretly Devoted to Nature”: Place Sense in Alice Munro's The View from Castle Rock..
17: “Age Could Be Her Ally”: Late Style in Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness.
