ABSTRACT
Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992. Alice Munro’s eight volumes of short fiction, from Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
to Open Secrets (1994), have gained her an international standing among practitioners and readers of contemporary fiction. The ever-increasing subtlety and complexity of her stories have been accompanied by increasing sophistication in critical response, so that those who read her work closely no longer see her simply as a “Canadian realist”. In the most recent critical responses, she earns examination and analysis within the diverse contexts of contemporary literary and cultural theory.
