Publication

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