Alice Munro's miraculous art : critical essays / edited by Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964- editor.

Lynch, Gerald, 1953- editor.

Series:

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 38.

Reappraisals: Canadian Writers ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Munro, Alice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa, [Canada] : University of Ottawa Press, 2017.

Summary:

Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introductory

Alice Munro's Miraculous Art

"This is Not a Story, Only Life": Wondering with Alice Munro

I - Forms

Living in the Story: Fictional Reality in the Stories of Alice Munro

From Munro's Lives to Shields's "Scenes": A Canadian Female Bildungsroman that "fit[s] into the hollow of her hand"

"The stuff they put in the old readers": Remembered and Recited Poetry in the Stories of Alice Munro

Carried Away by Letters: Alice Munro and the Epistolary Mode

Bridging the Gaps through Story Cycle: The View from Castle Rock

II - Themes

The Short Stories of Alice Laidlaw, 1950-51

Momentous Shifts and Unimagined Changes in "Jakarta"

"First and Last": The Figure of the Infant in "Dear Life" and "My Mother's Dream"

Invasion Narratives: Alice Munro's "Free Radicals" and Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

Religion in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women and Who Do You Think You Are?

III - Effects

"Something": The "Dark Sides" of Alice Munro's Story-Telling in Its American Context

Desire and Deferral: "Royal Beatings"

"Don't Take Her Word For It": Autobiographical Approximation and Shame in Munro's The View from Castle Rock

Once Upon a Time: Temporality in the Narration of Alice Munro

L'Envoi

On Sitting Down to Read "Lichen" Once Again

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 7, 2017).

ISBN:

9780776624358

0776624350