Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 3/8/2016
EAN 9781107472020, ISBN10: 1107472024
Paperback, 220 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Language: English
This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her artistic achievement. Considering a wide range of topics – including Munro's style, life writing, her personal development, and her use of Greek myths, Celtic ballads, Norse sagas, and popular songs – this volume will appeal to keen readers of Munro's fiction as well as students and scholars of literature and Canadian and gender studies.
Introduction David Staines
1. From Wingham to Clinton
Alice Munro in her Canadian context David Staines
2. Where do you think you are? Place in the short stories of Alice Munro Merilyn Simonds
3. The style of Alice Munro Douglas Glover
4. 'Oranges and Apples'
Alice Munro's undogmatic feminism Maria Löschnigg
5. Alice Munro and her life writing Coral Ann Howells
6. Lives of girls and women
a portrait of the artist as a young woman Margaret Atwood
7. Re-reading The Moons of Jupiter W. H. New
8. Alice Munro and personal development Robert McGill
9. The female bard
retrieving Greek myths, Celtic ballads, Norse sagas, and popular songs Héliane Ventura
10. The mother as material Elizabeth Hay
Bibliography
Index.