Intro; Praise for Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Risking Feeling: Alice Munro's Fiction of "Exquisite Shame"; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Ethics and Infant Feeding in Alice Munro's Stories; Bibliography; Chapter 3 The Shame of Affect: Sensation and Susceptibility in Alice Munro's Fiction; Risky Feelings; Other People's Feelings; Sticky Affects and Greasy Excitement; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Embodied Shame and the Resilient Ethics of Representation in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"

From Shame to Knowledge to EthicsShame as Psychosocial Emotion of Exposure; The Intrusion of the Semiotic into the Symbolic: "Coming Over the Mountain," or Reaching Out to the Stranger Within; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Alice Munro's Dramatic Fictions: Challenging (Dis)Ability by Playing with Oedipus the King and Embracing the Queer Art of Failure; Coming to Terms with Oedipal Violence and the Queer Art of Failure; Deconstructing Disability and Shame Through Embodied Communication; Bibliography

Chapter 6 "Chunks of Language Caught in Her Throat": The Problem of Other(ed) Minds in Alice Munro's Stories of Cognitive DisabilityBibliography; Chapter 7 Alice Munro and the Shame of Murder; Making Meaning of Murder; Munro and the Subject of Murder; The After of Murder; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Child's Play: Ethical Uncertainty and Narrative Play in the Work of Alice Munro; Bibliography; Chapter 9 Gravel and Grief: Alice Munro's Vulnerable Landscapes; The Ethos of Landscape; Encrypting Loss; Reckoning with Waste; Bibliography; Chapter 10 "A Sort of Refusal": Alice Munro's Reluctant Career