Thank You For Visiting

Essays On Alice Munro's Works III

J.R. (Tim) Struthers

• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781771839907
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Thank You for Visiting: Essays on Alice Munro's Works III, the third volume of essays issued by Guernica Editions in honour of Munro reveals, like the earlier collections Alice Munro Country and Alice Munro Everlasting, how critical writing can be not only as perceptive but also as personal as the stories it studies. Featured here are new works by Munro's most distinguished critics – including Catherine Sheldrick Ross, J.R. (Tim) Struthers, Robert Thacker – along with other uniquely exciting contributions such as Munro's Canadian publisher Douglas Gibson's investigation of the ever-so-close backgrounds three centuries ago in Scotland of the ancestors of both Alice Munro and Robertson Davies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• J.R. (Tim) Struthers Celebrating Alice Munro
• Ann Close Editing Alice Munro
• Douglas Gibson Alice Munro and Robertson Davies and the Scottish Borders
• Isla Duncan Connections
• Reg Thompson The Change of Seasons: Once Upon a Time with Alice Munro
• Margaret Atwood Alive to Herself: The Achievement of Alice Munro
• Noah Kozicki The Past, the Future, and the Myths of the Modern Rural Souwesto: An Essay of Concern
• Taylor Marie Graham Performing Munro in Huron County
• John Tyndall Times Alice Munro Asked Me a Question
• John Metcalf Casting Sad Spells: Alice Munro’s “Walker Brothers Cowboy”
• Stephen Michell Story as Acknowledgement: Returning to Alice Munro’s Southwestern Ontario Story “Walker Brothers Cowboy”
• Dennis Duffy Answering the Call of the Wild: Poetry, Sex, and Living in Alice Munro’s “Meneseteung”
• Ailsa Cox Scottish Roots: Alice Munro’s “Hold Me Fast, Don’t Let Me Pass”
• Corinne Bigot Alice Munro’s “A Wilderness Station”: Arachne in the Attic, Stitching Tales That Do Not Quite Add Up
• Catherine Sheldrick Ross Alice Munro’s “Save the Reaper”: Making “Its Live Noise after Dark”
• Michael Trussler Nothing More True: Reading Alice Munro
• Paul Barrett The Rock of Realism: Land and Settler Memory in Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock
• J.R. (Tim) Struthers Great Advantages: Alice Munro’s Invocation of Her Ancestral History/Herstory in the Opening Story “No Advantages” of The View from Castle Rock
• Ryan Porter Going Back (to) “Home”
• Alyda Faber Searching for an Unknown God: Alice Munro’s “What Do You Want To Know For?”
• William Butt Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock as Epic
• Robert Thacker “As Truthful As Our Notion of the Past Can Ever Be”: William Maxwell, His Ancestors, and Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock
• Charles E. May Thank You for Visiting
• J.R. (Tim) Struthers Song for Alice Munro
• About the Editor
• Contributor Biographies
• Acknowledgements