A Bibliographical Tour of Alice Munro Country / J.R. (Tim) Struthers. Looking, Imagining / Jack Hodgins -- The Boy with the Banana in His Mouth / Judith Thompson -- Einstein's Hammer and the Painting Pachyderm: Reading Alice Munro in the Digital Age (every day is trying to teach us something) / John B. Lee -- An ABC to Ontario Literature and Culture / James Reaney -- All Things Considered: Alice Munro First and Last / Reg Thompson -- Remembrance Day 1988: An Interview with Alice Munro / J.R. (Tim) Struthers -- Too Little Geography; Too Much History: Writing the Balance in Alice Munro / Dennis Duffy -- "The Region That I Know": The Bioregional View in Alice Munro's The View from Castle Rock / Alec Follett -- Intimate Dislocations: Buried History and Geography in Alice Munro's Souwesto Stories / Coral Ann Howells -- Society and Culture in Rural and Small-Town Ontario: Alice Munro's Testimony on the Forty Years from 1945 to 1985 / John Weaver -- Alice Munro and the Huron Tract as a Literary Project / Ian Rae -- Alice Munro's Black Bottom; or Black Tints and Euro Hints in Lives of Girls and Women / George Elliott Clarke -- Alice Munro as Small-Town Historian: "Spaceships Have Landed" / Warren U. Ober -- Killer OSPs and Style Munro in "Open Secrets" / William Butt -- Not for Entertainment Purposes Only: Ethnicity and Alice Munro's "Powers" / Shelley Hulan -- Thoughts from England: On Reading, Teaching, and Writing Back to Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" / Ailsa Cox -- Giving Tongue: Scorings of Voice, Verse, and Flesh in Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" / Louis K. MacKendrick -- "Pearl Street is another story": Poetry and Reality in Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" / Marianne Micros -- A Bibliographical Tour of Alice Munro Country / J.R. (Tim) Struthers.
Summary:
"This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir, "Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story Writer," by Munro's renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writer Jack Hodgins, playwright Judith Thompson, poet John B. Lee, poet-playwright-teacher James Reaney, and local historian Reg Thompson. Overall, the twenty contributions to Alice Munro Country, including a previously unpublished interview with Munro by J.R. (Tim) Struthers and a superb essay by George Elliott Clarke on Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, take a cultural or historical or personal approach, while also providing judicious readings of the subtle literary dimensions of key Munro works."-- Provided by publisher.
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