The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

This Companion is a complete introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro.

David Staines (Edited by)

9781107093270, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 March 2016

222 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.47 kg

'A melding of literary analysis, biography, and artistic appreciation, The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro … collects 10 essays, edited by David Staines … Staines contributes an efficient introduction and one of two chapters on the importance of the Canadian setting in Alice Munro's short stories. … Notable among the other contributors is Canadian author Margaret Atwood … who focuses her discussion on Munro's 1971 short-story collection Lives of Girls and Women.' Colloquy

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary theory [DSA], Literature: history & criticism [DS]