"Stabbed to the Heart. By the Beauty of Our Lives Streaming By": Munro's Finale / Robert Thacker. "At the End of a Long Road": Alice Munro's "Dear Life" / Catherine Sheldrick Ross -- Uncanny Tracks in the Snow; or, Alice Munro as Assemblage Artist / Michael Trussler -- "The Music Itself": Musical Representation and Musicality in the Short Stories of Alice Munro / Megan LaPierre -- Alice Munro and James Joyce / W.R. Martin -- Class Act?: Status, Disability, and Tolerance in Alice Munro's "Dance of the Happy Shades" / Gwendolyn Guth -- Remembering "Every Last Thing": Alice Munro's Epilogue to Lives of Girls and Women / Neil K. Besner -- A Series of Metaphorical Epitaphs: Alice Munro's "The Ottawa Valley" / Louis K. MacKendrick -- Who Do You Think You Are?. Alice Munro's Art of Disarrangement / Lawrence Mathews -- "The Way the Stars Really Do Come Out at Night": The Trick of Representation in Alice Munro's "The Moons of Jupiter" / Timothy McIntyre -- Ending Things Well: Alice Munro's "White Dump" / Karen Houle -- A Comic Streak: The Two "Fairly Happy" Heroines of Alice Munro's "Wigtime" / Tracy Ware -- Encountering "Blocks of Solid Darkness" in Alice Munro's "Vandals" / Janice Fiamengo -- My Mother's Dream / Sandra Sabatini -- The Skald and the Goddess: A Reading of Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" / Heliane Ventura -- The Place of Wisdom, Divination, the Act of Reading, and Alice Munro's "Powers" / J.R. (Tim) Struthers -- Messengers and Messaging in Alice Munro's The View from Castle Rock / William Butt -- Alice Munro's Narrative Historicism: "Too Much Happiness" / Dennis Duffy -- Fractal Fiction in Alice Munro's "Too Much Happiness" / Monika Lee -- "Stabbed to the Heart. By the Beauty of Our Lives Streaming By": Munro's Finale / Robert Thacker.
Summary:
"This rich volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, "Returning to the Source: Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty," followed by a major new essay by one of Munro's most long-standing and most perceptive readers, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, identifying and examining the major concerns which Munro has revisited so compellingly for the duration of her astonishing career. Overall, the twenty contributions to Alice Munro Everlasting take an ardently literary approach, with each essay focussing - uniquely amongst studies of any short story writer - on the last stories in Munro's fourteen volumes from Dance of the Happy Shades to Dear Life. Collectively, the many different contributions to Alice Munro Country and Alice Munro Everlasting offer a new model for the art of the critical essay - combining imagination and analysis, personal testimony and scholarship. They are intended equally to honour the genius of Alice Munro and to give enjoyment to all interested readers. And as one excited advance reader remarked, "I imagine that these two books will form the core of Alice Munro studies in the future.""-- Provided by publisher.
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