Alice Munro: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Runaway, Dear Life

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Series Editor’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Durable and Freestanding”: The Late Art of Munro
	Alice Munro over Ontario
	A deepening geological sensibility: “Axis”
Part 1 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
	Chapter 1 “The Key to the Treasure” Sex and Storytelling in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
		“Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage”
		“Floating Bridge”
		“Nettles”
		“Post and Beam”
		“What is Remembered”
	Chapter 2 Teaching and Conflict in Munro from “The Day of the Butterfly” to “Comfort”
		Classroom antics
		Surviving the boss of the classroom
		An ambivalent conclusion
	Chapter 3 Mistaken Identities in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”
		Marriage and mischaracterization
		The problem of names
		Flowery expressions and fine distinctions
Part 2 Runaway
	Chapter 4 Sibyl at the Kitchen Table, or Translating the Classics in “Hateship” and the Juliet Triptych
	Chapter 5 The Lives of Women and Men: Narrative Inflection in Alice Munro’s Runaway
		Narrative inflection: Readers, characters, and the control of indeterminacy
		Complex inflections
		The Juliet Triptych
		Munro and the narrative tradition
		Life, fate, and closure
	Chapter 6 “Old Confusions or Obligations”: Comic Vision in Runaway
		“Tricks”
		“Passion”
		The Juliet Triptych
		“Runaway”
		“Powers”
Part 3 Dear Life
	Chapter 7 Traveling with Munro: Reading “To Reach Japan”
		For my mother, Jean Laurie Bowley, October 6, 1919–July 4, 2007, on my sixty-fifth birthday, Saturday July 25, 2015
			Story as autobiography
			Story as metafiction
			Story as metaphor
			Story as allegory
			Coda
	Chapter 8 “Rage and Admiration”: Grotesque Humor in Dear Life
		“Pride”
		“Corrie”
		“Dolly”
	Chapter 9 “It Was[n’t] All Inward”: The Dynamics of Intimacy in the “Finale” of Dear Life
	Notes
		Introduction
		Chapter 2
		Chapter 3
		Chapter 4
		Chapter 5
		Chapter 6
		Chapter 8
		Chapter 9
	Works Cited
		Primary sources
		Archival sources
		Interviews with Munro
		Secondary sources
	Further Reading
	Notes on Contributors
		Volume Editor
		Contributors
	Index