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

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