Reading Alice Munro?s Breakthrough Books : A Suite in Four Voices
Language: English
Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2026
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- Title
- Reading Alice Munro?s Breakthrough Books : A Suite in Four Voices
- Author
- Struthers, J. R.; Cox, Ailsa; Bigot, Corinne; Ross, Catherine Sheldrick
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 139953453X
- ISBN 13
- 9781399534536
- Provides an authoritative assessment of the all-important middle period in the career of the widely read Nobel Prize winning short story writer Alice Munro, a canonical figure in contemporary literature
- Provides in-depth analysis of Munro's four successive breakthrough collections beginning with her sixth title The Progress of Love (1986) through Friend of My Youth (1990) and Open Secrets (1994) to The Love of a Good Woman (1998), thereby addressing a major gap in Munro criticism and, by extension, in all short story criticism
- Examines a range of literary and cultural elements that inform each volume, paying careful attention to form, technique and style in particular stories as well as discussing how individual stories talk to one another within a collection
- Brings together the different yet fully complementary perspectives of four long-engaged readers of Munro – two from Canada and two from Europe – who create a wholly unique and highly engaging conversation in four voices about what reading Munro means in the 21st century
- Offers a finely orchestrated, exciting new model for how criticism can be collectively written
What in terms of Alice Munro’s creative artistry and creative power allowed her to become the first and only short story writer, the first and only Canadian, and just the thirteenth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? And exactly when during Munro’s career did her artistry and power advance to ensure that she would earn such world-wide renown? The answers lie in studying the boldly innovative yet greatly under-examined group of her four mid-career breakthrough books. Our volume therefore provides a carefully orchestrated analysis of Munro’s subtle yet potent handling of form, technique and style both within individual stories and across these special collections. Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices not only addresses a significant vacancy in Munro criticism – and, by extension, in all short story criticism – but, equally importantly, offers an exciting new model for how criticism can be collectively written.
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About the Author
Ailsa Cox is Emerita Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University, UK. She is the author of Writing Short Stories (2005; 2nd ed. 2016) and Alice Munro (2004). Her own short fiction has appeared in journals including Katherine Mansfield Studies (2010, 2022).
Corinne Bigot is Maîtresse de Conférences of Postcolonial Literatures at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. She is the author of Alice Munro, les silences de la nouvelle (2014) and, with Catherine Lanone, Sunlight and Shadow, Past and Present: Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades (2014).
Catherine Sheldrick Ross was until her death Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Her previous work included The Pleasures of Reading: A Booklover’s Alphabet (2014) and Alice Munro: A Double Life (1992).
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