The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro Cambridge Companions to Literature Series

This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her artistic achievement. Considering a wide range of topics ? including Munro's style, life writing, her personal development, and her use of Greek myths, Celtic ballads, Norse sagas, and popular songs ? this volume will appeal to keen readers of Munro's fiction as well as students and scholars of literature and Canadian and gender studies.

Introduction David Staines; 1. From Wingham to Clinton: Alice Munro in her Canadian context David Staines; 2. Where do you think you are? Place in the short stories of Alice Munro Merilyn Simonds; 3. The style of Alice Munro Douglas Glover; 4. 'Oranges and Apples': Alice Munro's undogmatic feminism Maria Löschnigg; 5. Alice Munro and her life writing Coral Ann Howells; 6. Lives of girls and women: a portrait of the artist as a young woman Margaret Atwood; 7. Re-reading The Moons of Jupiter W. H. New; 8. Alice Munro and personal development Robert McGill; 9. The female bard: retrieving Greek myths, Celtic ballads, Norse sagas, and popular songs Héliane Ventura; 10. The mother as material Elizabeth Hay; Bibliography; Index.

David Staines is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. A scholar of medieval culture and literature, as well as Canadian culture and literature, he has authored or edited more than fifteen books, including The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture, Tennyson's Camelot: The Idylls of the King and its Medieval Sources, and The Letters of Stephen Leacock.