Alice Munro's miraculous art : critical essays /
Alice Munro's miraculous art : critical essays /
Miraculous art
edited by Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch.
- [Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (x, 309 pages).
- Reappraisals : Canadian writers .
Includes bibliographical references.
Alice Munro's miraculous art / "This is not a story, only life" : wondering with Alice Munro / I. Form. Living in the story : fictional reality in the stories of Alice Munro / From Munro's Lives to Shield'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 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 side" of Alice Munro's story-telling in its American context / Desire and deferral : "royal beating" / "Don't take her word for it" : autobiographical approximation and shame in Munro's The view from castle rock / Once upon a time : temporarily in the narration of Alice Munro / L'Envoi: On sitting down to read "Lichen" once again / Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch -- Robert Thacker -- Charles E. May -- Laurie Kruk -- Sara Jamieson -- Maria Loschnigg -- Tina Grigg -- D.M.R. Bentley -- Tracy Ware -- Ailsa Cox -- Carol L. Beran -- Josephene Kealey -- David R. Jarraway -- Ian Dennis -- Linda M. Morra -- E.D. Blodgett -- Magdalene Redekop.
"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."--
9780776624365 9780776624341 9780776624358
(AMICUS)000045008944
Munro, Alice, 1931- --Criticism and interpretation.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Electronic Books.
PR9199 / .A453 2017
Includes bibliographical references.
Alice Munro's miraculous art / "This is not a story, only life" : wondering with Alice Munro / I. Form. Living in the story : fictional reality in the stories of Alice Munro / From Munro's Lives to Shield'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 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 side" of Alice Munro's story-telling in its American context / Desire and deferral : "royal beating" / "Don't take her word for it" : autobiographical approximation and shame in Munro's The view from castle rock / Once upon a time : temporarily in the narration of Alice Munro / L'Envoi: On sitting down to read "Lichen" once again / Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch -- Robert Thacker -- Charles E. May -- Laurie Kruk -- Sara Jamieson -- Maria Loschnigg -- Tina Grigg -- D.M.R. Bentley -- Tracy Ware -- Ailsa Cox -- Carol L. Beran -- Josephene Kealey -- David R. Jarraway -- Ian Dennis -- Linda M. Morra -- E.D. Blodgett -- Magdalene Redekop.
"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."--
9780776624365 9780776624341 9780776624358
(AMICUS)000045008944
Munro, Alice, 1931- --Criticism and interpretation.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Electronic Books.
PR9199 / .A453 2017