Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books

Cover
Introduction: Catch and Release – Alice Munro and ‘the human palimpsest’
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Seeing in Circles: The Fierce Originality of The Progress of Love (1986)
	1. Welcome to My House!
	2. Epic Inclusiveness in ‘The Progress of Love’
	3. Verbal Play in ‘Lichen’
	4. Ways of Knowing and Ways of Being in ‘Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux’
	5. Did You Enjoy Your Visit?
‘The Old Order Changeth’: Change, Renovation and Modernity in Friend of My Youth (1990)
	1. Looking Through Binoculars: The Short Story Genre and Moments of Change
	2. Textual Instability in ‘Differently’
	3. Approaching the First Three Stories
	4. The Coda: ‘Wigtime’
	5. Reading Across a Short Story Collection
The Art of Misreading; or, The Driving Force of Misunderstanding: Open Secrets (1994)
	1. Introducing a Dark Collection
	2. ‘Open Secrets’: Death by Landscape
	3. Approaching the First Three Stories
	4. ‘Vandals’ as Coda: On (Not) Reading Signs
	5. The Art of Misreading
Rereading The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
	1. Introduction: ‘An Extra Dimension to Life’
	2. ‘The Love of a Good Woman’: ‘The Book Had Just Shifted This Much’
	3. ‘Jakarta’: ‘A Place of Their Own’
	4. ‘Cortes Island’: Sources and Transformations
	5. What Ordinary Readers Say about Reading The Love of a Good Woman
Works Consulted
Index of Stories and Story Collections
General Index