Alice Munro and the anatomy of the short story

Alice Munro has devoted her entire career to the short story form in her 14 collections, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature 'as master of the contemporary short story'.

This edited volume investigates her art as a storyteller, the processes she performs on the contemporary short story genre in her creative anatomical theatre.

Divided into five topical sections, it is a collection of scholarly chapters which offer textual insights into a single story, compare two or more texts, or casts a more panoramic view on Munro's literary production, embracing stories from her first collection 'Dance of the Happy Shades' to her last published 'Dear Life'.