In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing over forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, ending with encompassing afterword, this collection provides a selection of essays and reviews that reflect their times and tell the story of Munro's emergence and recognition as an internationally acclaimed writer since the 1970s. Acknowledging her beginnings and her persistence as a writer of increasingly exceptional short stories, and just short stories, it treats her career through Thacker's criticism up to her fourteenth collection, Dear Life (2012), and to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Altogether, this book encompasses the whole trajectory of Munro's critical presence while offering a singularly informed retrospective perspective.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index
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- C813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781552388419 9781552388396
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- PR9199.3.M8
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- Z8857 2016eb
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- 1 electronic text (x, 310 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00970827 (OCoLC)931152180 (CaOOCEL)467969
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Half title page 2
- Full title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction: Alice Munro’s “Approach and Recognition” 12
- PART 1: Narrative Techniques, Forms, and Critical Issues: Establishing a Presence 32
- Connection: Alice Munro and Ontario (1984) 56
- Critical Interlude: Conferring Munro (1987) 76
- Munro’s Progress (1987) 84
- “So Shocking a Verdict in Real Life”: Autobiography in Alice Munro’s Stories (1988) 90
- Critical Interlude: Go Ask Alice: The Progress of Munro Criticism (1991) 100
- PART 2: What the Archives Reveal:Reading a Deepening Aesthetic 122
- Alice Munro’s Willa Cather (1992) 126
- Alice Munro and the Anxiety of American Influence (1994) 144
- Alice Munro, Writing “Home”:“Seeing This Trickle in Time” (1998) 156
- Critical Interlude: What’s “Material”: The Progress of Munro Criticism, Part 2 (1998) 178
- Mapping Munro: Reading the “Clues” (1999) 200
- PART THREE: Understanding the Oeuvre 208
- Alice Munro’s Ontario (2007) 212
- A “Booming Tender Sadness”:Alice Munro’s Irish (2008) 228
- No Problem Here: A Review ofToo Much Happiness (2009) 238
- “The Way the Skin of the Moment Can Break Open”: Reading Alice Munro’s “White Dump” (2010) 242
- Critical Interlude: Alice Munro: Critical Reception (2013) 254
- Afterword: “A Wonderful Stroke of Good Fortune for Me”: Reading Alice Munro, 1973–2013 272
- Notes 282
- Works Cited 296
- Index 312
- Back Cover 322
