Introduction

This issue of Revue Etudes Canadiennes/ Canadian Studies, (n° 77) is devoted to Alice Munro’s short fiction writing and particularly to her first set of short-stories Dance of the Happy Shades. You might say our Revue - which is dedicated for once to a Canadian author who is not a household name in France -, is printed very timely at the same time as it is probably too late. Indeed students taking the agrégation d’anglais in 2015 (a competitive advanced state exam for English secondary school..