Table Of Contents:
Editor's Note vii
Introduction 1(4)

Harold Bloom

Dance of the Happy Shades: Reading the Signs of Invasion 5(24)

Magdalene Redekop

``Every Last Thing...Everlasting'': Alice Munro and the Limits of Narrative 29(12)

Katherine J. Mayberry

The Art of Alice Munro: Memory, Identity, and the Aesthetics of Connection 41(16)

Georgeann Murphy

``It's What I Believe'': Patterns of Complicity in The Progress of Love 57(24)

Ajay Heble

``It was about Vanishing'': A Glimpse of Alice Munro's Stories 81(22)

Mark Levene

Getting Loose: Women and Narration in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth 103(20)

Deborah Heller

Searching Bluebeard's Chambers: Grimm, Gothic, and Bible Mysteries in Alice Munro's ``The Love of a Good Woman'' 123(20)

Judith McCombs

Short Fiction with Attitude: The Lives of Boys and Men in the Lives of Girls and Women 143(10)

Janet Beer

Rewriting the Frontier: Wilderness and Social Code in the Fiction of Alice Munro 153(14)

Rowland Smith

Intimate Dislocations: Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage 167(26)

Coral Ann Howells
Chronology 193(2)
Contributors 195(2)
Bibliography 197(4)
Acknowledgments 201(2)
Index 203