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, including The Beggar Maid, Friend of My Youth, Lives
Critical Insights: Alice Munro 3
Contents 5
About This Volume 7
Career,Life, and Influence 13
On Alice Munro 15
Biography of Alice Munro 31
Critical Contexts 39
Alice Munro: Critical Reception 41
Doing Her Duty and Writing Her Life: Alice Munro’s Cultural and Historical Context 64
Seduction and Subjectivity: Psychoanalysis and the Fiction of Alice Munro 80
Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro: Writers, Women, Canadians 99
Critical Readings 119
“My Mother’s Laocoon Inkwell”: Lives of Girls and Women and the Classical Past 121
Who Does Rose Think She Is? Acting and Being in The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose 140
Alice Munro’s The Progress of Love: Free (and) Radical 154
Friend of My Youth: Alice Munro and the Power of Narrativity 172
In Search of the Perfect Metaphor: The Language of the Short Story and Alice Munro’s “Meneseteung” 187
The Complex Tangle of Secrets in Alice Munro’s Open Secrets 207
The Houses That Alice Munro Built: The Community of The Love of a Good Woman 224
Honest Tricks: Surrogate Authors in Alice Munro’s Hateship, Friendship, Courtship,Loveship, Marriage 240
Narrative, Memory, and Contingency in Alice Munro’s Runaway 254
“Secretly Devoted to Nature”: Place Sense in Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock 271
“Age Could Be Her Ally”: Late Style in Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness 288
Resources 303
Chronology of Alice Munro’s Life 305
Works by Alice Munro 308
Bibliography 309
Critical Insights 311
About the Editor 313
Contributors 315
Index 319
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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. Often compared to Chekhov for her fastidiously structured plots and psychological complexity, she has won the admiration of writers and readers around the world. From her early success with Dance of the Happy Shades to her most recent collections, Munro has steadily proven that short stories can be just as intricate, moving, and formidable as the best novels. Edited by Charles May, Emeritus Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the Canadian writer. For readers who are studying Munro for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of her life and four essays survey the critical reception of Munro's work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate Munro among her contemporaries, and review key themes in her work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like Munro's Canadian identity; her aesthetics and narrative devices; the psychology of her characters; and recurrent themes in her work, like secrets, acting, and memory. Works discussed include The Beggar Maid, Friend of My Youth, Runaway, Too Much Happiness, Lives of Girls and Women, The Progress of Love, and The Love of a Good Woman. Among the contributors are Philip Coleman, David Crouse, Robert Thacker, and Alisa Cox. Rounding out the volume are a chronology of Munro's life and a list of her principal publications as well as a bibliography for readers seeking to study this iconic author in greater depth. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference A chronology of the author's life; A complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication; A general bibliography; A detailed paragraph on the volume's editor; Notes on the individual chapter authors; A subject index.

On Alice Munro / Charles E. May -- Biography Of Alice Munro / Charles E. May -- Alice Munro : Critical Reception / Robert Thacker -- Doing Her Duty And Writing Her Life : Alice Munro's Cultural And Historical Context / Timothy Mcintyre -- Seduction And Subjectivity : Psychoanalysis And The Fiction Of Alice Munro / Naomi Morgenstern -- Margaret Atwood And Alice Munro : Writers, Women, Canadians / Carol L. Beran -- My Mother's Laocoon Inkwell : Lives Of Girls And Women And The Classical Past / Medrie Purdham -- Who Does Rose Think She Is? Acting And Being In The Beggar Maid : Stories Of Flo And Rose / David Peck -- Alice Munro's The Progress Of Love : Free (and) Radical / Mark Levene -- Friend Of My Youth : Alice Munro And The Power Of Narrativity / Philip Coleman -- In Search Of The Perfect Metaphor : The Language Of The Short Story And Alice Munro's Meneseteung / J.r. (tim) Struthers -- The Complex Tangle Of Secrets In Alice Munro's Open Secrets / Michael Toolan -- The Houses That Alice Munro Built : The Community Of The Love Of A Good Woman / Jeff Birkenstein -- Honest Tricks : Surrogate Authors In Alice Munro's Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage / David Crouse -- Narrative, Memory, And Contingency In Alice Munro's Runaway / Michael Trussler. Editor, Charles E. May. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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