Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-24

Part I - Conceptualizing Space and Place: Houses, Landscapes, Territory

pp 25-26

1 - Where Do You Think You Are? Alice Munro's Open Houses

pp 27-40

2 - “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

pp 41-62

3 - Mapping the Vernacular Landscape in Alice Munro's “What Do You Want to Know For?” and Other Stories

pp 63-81

4 - Stories in the Landscape Mode: A Reading of Alice Munro's “Lives of Girls and Women,” “Walker Brothers Cowboy,” and “Lichen”

pp 82-99

5 - “What Place Is This?” Alice Munro's Fictional Places and Her Place in Fiction

pp 100-118

6 - “The Emptiness in Place of Her”: Space, Absence, and Memory in Alice Munro's Dear Life

pp 119-132

7 - Down the Rabbit Hole: Revisiting the Topos of the Cave in Alice Munro's Short Stories

pp 133-156

Part II - Close Readings of Space and Place

pp 157-158

8 - Spaces of Utopia and Spaces of Actuality in Alice Munro's “Jakarta”

pp 159-170

9 - Spatial Perspectives in Alice Munro's “Passion”

pp 171-182

10 - Charting Alice Munro's Terra Incognita: Punctuated Space in “Free Radicals”

pp 183-198

11 - Heterotopy in Alice Munro's “In Sight of the Lake”

pp 199-208

Bibliography

pp 209-224

Notes on the Contributors

pp 225-228

Index

pp 229-236