Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: The Resonance of Language -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Section II: Story Bricks -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Section III: Disempowerment and Re-empowerment -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Section IV: Food, Animals and Death -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Section V: Munro in Translation -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Alice Munro has devoted her entire career to the short story form in her fourteen collections, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature "as master of the contemporary short story". This edited volume investigates her art as a storyteller, the processes she performs on the contemporary short story genre in her creative anatomical theatre. Divided into five topical sections, it is a collection of scholarly chapters which offer textual insights into a single story, compare two or more texts, or casts a more panoramic view on Munro's literary production, embracing stories from her first collection Dance of the Happy Shades to her last published Dear Life. Through different critical approaches that range from post-structuralism to cultural studies, from linguistics and rhetorical analyses to translation studies, the authors insist on the concept that no fixed patterns prevail in her short stories, as Munro has constantly developed, challenged, and revised existing modes of generic configuration, while discussing the fluidity, the elusiveness, the indeterminacy, the ambiguity of her superb writing.

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