The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

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.

'… a welcome addition to the already large body of Munro criticism.' Commonwealth Essays and 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.