Space and Place in Alice Munro’s Fiction

Christine Lorre-Johnston, Eleonora Rao

New essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography to devote attention to the "regional" settings of Munro's stories and how they affect her characters' development or stasis.

Introduction - Christine Lorre-Johnston and Eleonora RaoWhere Do You Think You Are? Alice Munro's Open Houses - Robert McGill"Whose House Is That?" Spaces of Metamorphosis in Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades, Who Do You Think You Are?, and The View from Castle Rock - Eleonora RaoMapping the Vernacular Landscape in Alice Munro's "What Do You Want to Know For?" and Other Stories - Corinne BigotStories in the Landscape Mode: A Reading of Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women," "Walker Brothers Cowboy," and "Lichen" - Claire Omhovère"What Place Is This?" Alice Munro's Fictional Places and Her Place in Fiction - Anca-Raluca Radu"The Emptiness in Place of Her": Space, Absence, and Memory in Alice Munro's Dear Life - Ailsa CoxDown the Rabbit Hole: Revisiting the Topos of the Cave in Alice Munro's Short Stories - Christine Lorre-JohnstonSpaces of Utopia and Spaces of Actuality in Alice Munro's "Jakarta" - Fausto CiompiSpatial Perspectives in Alice Munro's "Passion" - Giuseppina BottaCharting Alice Munro's Terra Incognita: Punctuated Space in "Free Radicals" - Lynn BlinHeterotopy in Alice Munro's "In Sight of the Lake" - Caterina Ricciardi