Alice Munro country : essays on her works I / edited by J.R. (Tim) Struthers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Struthers, J. R. Tim, 1950- editor.

Series:

Essential writers series ; 51.

Essential writers series ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Munro, Alice, 1931-2024--Criticism and interpretation.

Munro, Alice.

Munro, Alice, 1931-2024.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Physical Description:

ix, 399 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Chicago ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2020.

Summary:

"This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir, "Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story Writer," by Munro's renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writer Jack Hodgins, playwright Judith Thompson, poet John B. Lee, poet-playwright-teacher James Reaney, and local historian Reg Thompson. Overall, the twenty contributions to Alice Munro Country, including a previously unpublished interview with Munro by J.R. (Tim) Struthers and a superb essay by George Elliott Clarke on Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, take a cultural or historical or personal approach, while also providing judicious readings of the subtle literary dimensions of key Munro works."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story Writer / Douglas Gibson

Looking, Imagining / Jack Hodgins

The Boy with the Banana in His Mouth / Judith Thompson

Einstein's Hammer and the Painting Pachyderm: Reading Alice Munro in the Digital Age (every day is trying to teach us something) / John B. Lee

An ABC to Ontario Literature and Culture / James Reaney

All Things Considered: Alice Munro First and Last / Reg Thompson

Remembrance Day 1988: An Interview with Alice Munro / J.R. (Tim) Struthers

Too Little Geography; Too Much History: Writing the Balance in Alice Munro / Dennis Duffy

"The Region That I Know": The Bioregional View in Alice Munro's The View from Castle Rock / Alec Follett

Intimate Dislocations: Buried History and Geography in Alice Munro's Souwesto Stories / Coral Ann Howells

Society and Culture in Rural and Small-Town Ontario: Alice Munro's Testimony on the Forty Years from 1945 to 1985 / John Weaver

Alice Munro and the Huron Tract as a Literary Project / Ian Rae

Alice Munro's Black Bottom; or Black Tints and Euro Hints in Lives of Girls and Women / George Elliott Clarke

Alice Munro as Small-Town Historian: "Spaceships Have Landed" / Warren U. Ober

Killer OSPs and Style Munro in "Open Secrets" / William Butt

Not for Entertainment Purposes Only: Ethnicity and Alice Munro's "Powers" / Shelley Hulan

Thoughts from England: On Reading, Teaching, and Writing Back to Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" / Ailsa Cox

Giving Tongue: Scorings of Voice, Verse, and Flesh in Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" / Louis K. MacKendrick

"Pearl Street is another story": Poetry and Reality in Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" / Marianne Micros

A Bibliographical Tour of Alice Munro Country / J.R. (Tim) Struthers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Alice Munro country.

ISBN:

9781771834353

1771834358

OCLC:

1111735328