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"Alice Munro's Miraculous Art presents a collection of essays on the Nobel laureate's writings, covering the entirety of Munro's career from the first stories in the early 1950s to her final works. The in-depth exploration of Munro's characteristic forms, themes, and most notable literary effects is complemented by Munro scholar and biographer Robert Thacker, who contributes a substantial bio-critical introduction to her career. This reappraisal of one of Canada's most celebrated authors will no doubt become an invaluable contribution to reading, teaching and appreciating Alice Munro's remarkable – indeed miraculous – oeuvre." (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTORY:

[1.] Alice Munro's Miraculous Art / Janice Fiamengo and Gerald Lynch

[2.] "This is Not a Story, Only Life": Wondering with Alice Munro / Robert Thacker

I FORMS:

[3.] Living in the Story: Fictional Reality in the Stories of Alice Munro / Charles E. May

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

[5.] "The stuff they put in the old readers": Remembered and Recited Poetry in the Stories of Alice Munro / Sara Jamieson

[6.] Carried Away by Letters: Alice Munro and the Epistolary Mode / Maria Löschnigg

[7.] Bridging the Gaps through Story Cycle: The View from Castle Rock / Tina Trigg

II THEMES:

[8.] The Short Stories of Alice Laidlaw, 1950-51 / D.M.R. Bentley

[9.] Momentous Shifts and Unimagined Changes in "Jakarta" / Tracy Ware

[10.] "First and Last": The Figure of the Infant in "Dear Life" and "My Mother's Dream" / Alisa Cox

[11.] Invasion Narratives: Alice Munro's "Free Radicals" and Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, Where Have You Been?" / Carol L. Beran

[12.] Religion in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women and Who Do You Think You Are? / Josephene Kealey

III EFFECTS:

[13.] "Something": The "Dark Sides" of Alice Munro's Story-Telling in Its American Context / David R. Jarraway

[14.] Desire and Deferral: "Royal Beatings" / Ian Dennis

[15.] "Don't Take Her Word For It": Autobiographical Approximation and Shame in Munro's The View from Castle Rock / Linda M. Morra

[16.] Once Upon a Time: Temporality in the Narration of Alice Munro / E.D. Blodgett

L'ENVOI :

[17.] On Sitting Down to Read "Lichen" Once Again / Magdalene Redekop