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      Manchester University Press
      Publication date:
      21 January 2026
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      9781526185815
      9780719045592
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      Literature, Literary Texts, European and World Literature: General Interest
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    To read Alice Munro's stories is to discover the delights of seeing two worlds at once: an ordinary everyday world and the shadowy map of another imaginary or secret world laid over the real one. This book proposes to develop the imagery of maps and mapping which is so popular in contemporary feminist criticism and postcolonial writing and which happens to be peculiarly appropriate for Munro. Instead of leaping back, Munro has continued to experiment with the short story form, always attempting to represent more adequately the complex layering of the way things are or rather the ways things might be interpreted from different perspectives. Certainly, Munro's narrative methods have changed over the years, as she allows more and more possible meanings to circulate in every story while refusing definitive interpretations or plot resolution. The book discusses Munro's eight books in chronological sequence. In every collection, the author comments on the design of the volume while focusing discussion on three or four stories, aiming always for a double emphasis on thematic continuities and on Munro's ongoing experiments within the short story form and within small-town fiction, both of which are marks of her distinctive Canadian inheritance linking her in a tradition which goes back to nineteenth-century writers like Sara Jeanette Duncan.

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