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Alice Munro has devoted her entire career to the short story form in her fourteen 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. Through different critical approaches that range from post-structuralism to cultural studies, from linguistics and rhetorical analyses to translation studies, the authors insist on the concept that no fixed patterns prevail in her short stories, as Munro has constantly developed, challenged, and revised existing modes of generic configuration, while discussing the fluidity, the elusiveness, the indeterminacy, the ambiguity of her superb writing.

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Oriana Palusci is Full Professor of English at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy. She is the President of the Italian Association for Canadian Studies and the Director of the Canadian Studies Centre in Naples. She has published extensively on a number of literary, linguistic and environmental topics related to English, Canadian and American studies. She has recently edited Green Canada (2016).

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