Alice Munro's miraculous art
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch
Series: Reappraisals : Canadian writers -- [38]; Re-appraisals, Canadian writers -- 38.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780776624334
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Miraculous art
Description: "This collection offers 16 original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings, providing an enlightening range of approaches and interpretive strategies by her most eminent critics. The essays cover the entirety of Munro's career, from the first stories she published as an undergraduate at The University of Western Ontario in the early 1950s to her final books (presumably), The View from Castle Rock and Dear Life. Following the editors' introduction--which surveys Munro's recurrent themes, explains the design of the book, and summarizes each contribution--Munro biographer Robert Thacker contributes a substantial bio-critical introduction to Munro's career. The book is then divided into three sections, focusing on Munro's characteristic forms, themes, and most notable literary effects. In total, the collection provides many new perspectives, reconsidered positions, and scholarly-critical analyses that will enhance the reading, teaching, and appreciation of Munro's remarkable indeed miraculous fictions."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Alice Munro's miraculous art  -- Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch; title: "This is not a story, only life" : wondering with Alice Munro  -- Robert Thacker; title: Forms.; title: Living in the story : fictional reality in the stories of Alice Munro  -- Charles E. May ;; title: From Munro's Lives to Shield's "scenes" : a Canadian female Bildungsroman that "fit[s] into the hollow of her hand"  -- Laurie Kruk ;; title: "The stuff they put in the old readers" : remembered and recited poetry in the stories of Alice Munro  -- Sara Jamieson ;; title: Carried away by letters : Alice Munro and epistolary mode  -- Maria Löschnigg ;; title: Bridging the gaps through story cycle : The view from castle rock  -- Tina Grigg; title: Themes.; title: The short stories of Alice Laidlaw, 1950-51  -- D.M.R. Bentley ;; title: Momentous shifts and unimagined changes in "Jakarta"  -- Tracy Ware ;; title: "First and last" : the figure of the infant in "Dear life" and "My mother's dream"  -- Ailsa Cox ;; title: Invasion narratives : Alice Munro's "Free radicals" and Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?"  -- Carol L. Beran ;; title: Religion in Alice Munro's Lives of girls and women and Who do you think you are?  -- Josephene Kealey; title: Effects.; title: "Something" : the "dark side" of Alice Munro's story-telling in its American context  -- David R. Jarraway ;; title: Desire and deferral : "royal beating"  -- Ian Dennis ;; title: "Don't take her word for it" : autobiographical approximation and shame in Munro's The view from castle rock  -- Linda M. Morra ;; title: Once upon a time : temporarily in the narration of Alice Munro  -- E.D. Blodgett; title: L'Envoi: On sitting down to read "Lichen" once again -- Magdalene Redekop.