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PSYCHOLOGICAL REALISM
IN ALICE MUNRO’SSELECTED STORIES
ALICE MUNRO
Canadian Short story Writer Nobel Prize Winner (2013)1st Canadian Nobel LaureateCanadian Chekhov
SETTING
South Western Ontario
GENERAL REMARKS ABOUT
MUNRO’S STORIES
Voice of Canadian Identity
Depict Everyday life
Psychological Perception
THEMES OF MUNRO
Memory
Secret
Acting
PSYCHOLOGICAL REALISM
Psychological Novel Manner of writingFlourishes late 19th and early 20th century1st appears in the 11th century Japanese literature
Psychological realism isconsidered to be character-driven and place special emphasison the interior life of theprotagonists or other point ofview characters. It arises fromthe motives, fears, andreactions of characters to thedilemmas.
Interior landscape of the characters
Plot and Settings are secondary
Few Characters
MUNRO’S CHARACTERS
Mostly Women
Feels alienation
Longing for love
Occupies loneliness
Self
THEMES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL REALISM
ALIENATION
LONELINESS
LOVE
SELF
SUB-DIVISIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL
REALISM
Subconscious
Memories
Intuition
Self
SUBCONSCIOUS
Store house of one’s knowledge and experience
Munro’s characters reflect the inner mind of the women.
Example:
The Progress of Love
Euphemia, the narrator subconsciously explains the incident of burning 3oo dollars by her mother.
MEMORIES
3 Stages
1st stage – encoding or register
2nd stage – storage
3rd stage - retrive
Characters live with their memories.
Example:
Ottawa Valley
The narrator lives with the memory of her mother and their trip to Ottawa, mother’s native.
INTUITION
Ability to understand the knowledge without obstruction
ExampleMiles City, Montana
The narrator suddenly enquires about her younger daughter Meg to elder daughter Cynthia. After that her husband pulls Meg out of water from the swimming pool.
SELF
Identity of one’s own
Every other woman characters express their own identity.
They are like journalist, writer, and so on.
CONCLUSION
First person narrationReflect rural Ontario peopleTrap with religiousReflects nature, Feminism,
Psychoanalytical TheoryPsychological realism is absolutely
differs from psychoanalytic criticism.
REFERENCE
Munro, Alice. Selected Stories. London:Random House, 1997.Print.
Kennedy, Patrick. “Psychological Realism.”About.com Classical Literature in Translation. Web.
Rushing, Elizabeth .“Psychological Realism.” Literature Rush. Web.
“Psychological Novel.” Jasonic. Web.
PRESENTED BY
T. DHIVYA, M.A; M.PHIL; P.G.D.C.A;
ASST. PROF
DEPT OF ENGLISH
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