Introduction: Catch and Release - Alice Munro and 'the human palimpsest', Robert Thacker Seeing in Circles: The Fierce Originality of The Progress of Love (1986), J.R. (Tim) Struthers 1. Welcome to My House! 2. Epic Inclusiveness in 'The Progress of Love' 3. Verbal Play in 'Lichen' 4. Ways of Knowing and Ways of Being in 'Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux' 5. Did You Enjoy Your Visit? 'The Old Order Changeth': Change, Renovation and Modernity in Friend of My Youth (1990), Ailsa Cox 1.

Looking Through Binoculars: The Short Story Genre and Moments of Change 2. Textual Instability in 'Differently' 3. Approaching the First Three Stories 4. The Coda: 'Wigtime' 5. Reading Across a Short Story Collection The Art of Misreading; or, The Driving Force of Misunderstanding: Open Secrets (1994), Corinne Bigot 1. Introducing a Dark Collection 2. 'Open Secrets': Death by Landscape 3. Approaching the First Three Stories 4.

'Vandals' as Coda: On (Not) Reading Signs 5. The Art of Misreading Rereading The Love of a Good Woman (1998), Catherine Sheldrick Ross 1. Introduction: 'An Extra Dimension to Life' 2. 'The Love of a Good Woman': 'The Book Had Just Shifted This Much' 3. 'Jakarta': 'A Place of Their Own' 4. 'Cortes Island': Sources and Transformations 5. What Ordinary Readers Say about Reading The Love of a Good Woman Works Consulted Index Contributor Biographies Acknowledgements.