Vanessa Guignery, ed. The Inside of a Shell. Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 296 p.
Table of Contents :
Acknowledgements..................................................................... viii
Introduction.................................................................................. 1
The Balance of Opposites in Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades
Vanessa Guignery
Part I: Panoramic Views
Chapter One................................................................................ 26
“For there is no easy way to get to Jubilee from anywhere on earth”:
Places in Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades
Claire Omhovère
Chapter Two............................................................................... 46
Alice Munro and the Huron Tract as a Literary Project
Ian Rae
Chapter Three.............................................................................. 65
“Clear Jelly”: Alice Munro’s Narrative Dialectics
Robert Thacker
Chapter Four............................................................................... 86
Alice Munro and the Poetics of the Linoleum
Sabrina Francesconi
Chapter Five............................................................................... 98
Children’s Rules in Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades
Kerry-Jane Wallart
Chapter Six............................................................................... 114
The Epiphany Concept and its Undoing in Alice Munro’s Early Stories
Jacob Hovind
Part II: Diptychs of the Imagination
Chapter Seven............................................................................ 130
Patterns of Entrapment and Lines of Flight in Alice Munro’s
“Thanks for the Ride” and “The Shining Houses”
Corinne Bigot
Chapter Eight............................................................................ 144
“Something You Have Always Known Was There”: Figures of Death
in Alice Munro’s “Images” and “The Peace of Utrecht”
Laura Dawkins
Chapter Nine............................................................................. 156
From Accident to Murder: The Ethics of Responsibility in Alice
Munro’s “The Time of Death” and “Child’s Play”
Héliane Ventura
Chapter Ten.............................................................................. 169
Clarity of Insight and Commonplaces: Alice Munro, James Joyce
and Alex Colville
Catherine Lanone
Chapter Eleven........................................................................... 186
Happy Shades of “June Recital” in “Dance of the Happy Shades”:
Munro’s Dance with Welty
Jean-Marc Victor
Chapter Twelve.......................................................................... 200
“The other country where she lives”: Opera and its Doubles
in Alice Munro’s “Dance of the Happy Shades”
Mathieu Duplay
Part III: Close-Ups
Chapter Thirteen........................................................................ 218
Alice Munro’s “Images”: Don’t Tell Momma
Magdalen Redekop
Chapter Fourteen........................................................................ 226
Pictures of the Imagination: A Study of the Drafts of “Images”
by Alice Munro
Christine Lorre-Johnston
Chapter Fifteen........................................................................... 244
Grandmothers Beware: Deadly Feminine Desires in Alice Munro’s
“A Trip to the Coast”
Claude Maisonnat
Chapter Sixteen.......................................................................... 258
Alice Munro’s “The Peace of Utrecht” or How to Deal with Remains
Pascale Tollance
Chapter Seventeen...................................................................... 271
The Rupture of the Ordinary as an “Awkward Little Space”:
Evental Moments in Alice Munro’s “Dance of the Happy Shades”
Ulrica Skagert
Contributors.............................................................................. 283
Index........................................................................................ 289