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Dynamics of Intimacies in Alice Munro's 'Runaway' Dynamics of Intimacies in Alice Munro’s ‘Runaway’ A Dissertation Submitted to Department of English For the complete fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts in English Submitted by: Supervised By: Rimsy Ms. Priyanka Sharma Registration No:11605805 Assistant Professor Department of English Lovely Professional University Punjab 2017 DECLARATION I hereby declare that this dissertation entitle ―Dynamics of Intimacies in Alice Munro‘s Runaway‖ is a record of first hand research work done by me during the period of my study in the year 2017 and that this dissertation has not formed the basis for the award of any other Degree, Diploma, Associate ship, Fellowship, or other similar title. Place: Jalandhar Signature of the Candidate Date: ii CERTIFICATE I hereby certify that this dissertation entitle ―Dynamics of Intimacies in Alice Munro‘s Runaway‖ by Alice Munro for the award of M.A. degree is a record of research work done by the candidate under my supervision during the period of her subject (2017) and that the dissertation has not formed the basis for the award of any other Degree, Diploma, Associate ship, Fellowship, or other similar title and that this dissertation represents independent work on the part of the candidate. Place: Jalandhar Miss Priyanka Sharma Date: Supervisor iii ABSTRACT Alice Munro is regarded as Canadian pure short story writer. Her writing can help enlightening man centric structures which entangle women in traditional gender roles. This dissertation deals with well know work of Alice Munro that is Runaway Stories. This dissertation represents the Dynamics of Intimacies in the relationships in the Runaway Stories. The introduction parts represent the brief introduction of Alice Munro with brief information of her work, brief plots of her stories, scope of study and objectives of this dissertation. First chapter includes intimacies between Mothers and Daughters, Juliet trilogy. It also includes the quest of women for their identity. The second chapter include struggle of women to move beyond traditional gender roles: to leave and to return. It also informs about the insurmountable female quest, Struggle for their selfhood, Low-lying temptation of Runaway or Envisioning a female quest. Last chapter is conclusion which gives a discourse about how desires, put upon ladies by a male centric culture, influence sex development. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT My sincere gratitude is to my supervisor Miss Priyanka Sharma under whose expert guidance, I completed this dissertation. It would have been very difficult to complete the project without her valuable support and guidance. She had been very helpful to me in giving suggestion in my research project. I would also like to thank Dr. Ajoy Batta, Head of the Department of English for his support and valuable advice. I owe my greatest dept to my parents who encourage me to work hard. I also put on my record my thanks to my family and friends for their love, affection, support and encouragement. v Dedication ―To my beloved parents and My Dear Friends‖. vi Table of content S. no Title Page no 1 Introduction 1-11 2 Chapter 1 12-16 3 Chapter 2 17-25 4 Conclusion 26-29 5 Bibliography 30-32 vii Rimsy 1 INTRODUCTION In the month of July of 1931, Alice Munro was born in Canada. Reading is her passion from an early age. She is entitled as Canadian short story writer. She began writing at age of 11. In 1950, while she was studying in the University of Western Ontario, Munro aired a sale of her first short stories. Governor General‘s Literary Award was the result of this. Her novel ‗Lies of Girls and Women‘ was published in 1971. Canadian Booksellers Association Book Award also went to her hands. She published her second collection of stories in 1974.Alice Munro was born as Alice Ann Laidlaw. Alice Munro‘s father was a poultry man and her mother was teaching in a local school. In 1949, for the completion of degree in English, she enrolled in the University of Ontario but could not complete her degree and left it in mid-way. After that, she married in 1951. Short story writing is the specialty of Munro and she is also famous for her common and mobile style which illuminates human intricacy effortlessly. She keeps a remarkable position among other contemporary writers of fiction. She gave prime attention to her native place; Southwestern Ontario in her short stories. She used to describe the local people, their desires and their lifestyles in her writings. She started writing at her adolescent age and published her first story as a student. Her firm holds on regional and perplex female characters are the features of her writings. Southern Ontario Gothic is a literary genre and most of her writings are related to it. Dilemma of the girls of coming of age was her prime theme in her initial days of writing. With the attainment of maturity, her arena broadens to elderly and middle-aged women. Main themes of her stories are very evident from her early stories. Complexities and Rimsy 2 confusion of a matured girls and her growing relation with their family have been the prime concern of her stories. Mainly, her books contain the collections of short stories and one book grew up in the form of a novel. That novel is basically mingling of many short stories which came into the two different genres. Her available stories has the sites of native Canada in small provincial towns in which she grew up and it tells the human bonding by daily regular events. Her stories are not necessarily but directly autobiographical they reflect the author's own life experiences and are concerned with women's lives and are 'probably unrivalled in their fullness' (Washington Post 1998). Post 1977, the New Yorker magazine became the first magazine which had first publication rights for her short stories. She published her story collections after short intervals. Her works got immense popular and got appreciation with many literary awards. Munro got the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and the supreme award in the field of literature Nobel Prize in 2013.After that she is considered as one of the world‘s very best living writers of short fiction in English. Ontario and Western Canada are the most preferable destinations for her stories and many deals with the relationships of men and women. Her stories have representation of both past and present. Her stories have been said to ―embed more than announce, reveal more than parade‖. Alice Munro writes many Plays, Books, Teleplays like Dance of the Happy Shades, 1969, Lies of Girls and Women, 1971 (only novel published), Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, 1974, Who Do You Think You Are?, 1978, The Moons of Jupiter, 1982, The Progress of Love, 1986, Friend of My Youth, 1990, Open Secrets, 1994, Selected Stories, 1996 (28 of Munro‘s previously published stories, including many of her best known to that point), The Love of a Good Woman, 1998.Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Love ship, Rimsy 3 Marriage Stories, 2002, Runaway: Stories, 2004The View from Castle Rock, 2006, Away From Her, 2007, courting Johanna, 2009, new selected stories, 2011,dear life, 2012. Munro‘s teleplays are "Thanks for the Ride," in To See Ourselves, CBC, 1973, How I Met My Husband, (broadcast in The Play’s the Thing, CBC, 1974), Macmillan (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1976.Munro wins many Prizes like National Magazine Awards Foundation Gold Medal award, 1977, 1982, Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters and Periodical Distributors of Canada Author's award, 1980, Marian Engel award, 1986, Canada- Australia Literary Prize, 1994, Canadian Booksellers Association Author of the Year award, 1995, Giller Prize, 1998, 2004 etc. She is known as the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade." Munro is marked for her long-life connection with editor and publisher Douglas Gibson. Munro wanted to work with Gibson therefore she has to break her contract with Macmillan. She did this with returning of money to Macmillan. Gibson became important in life of Munro as represent in public on the behalf of Munro. However one can reach to Munro with the help of internet. Munro‘s work deals with affection, work and the Indio syncracies of both. In the year 2003, her 16 stories have been incorporated in Munro's own collection more than twice with two of her works: "Carried Away" and "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage". A new collection from Alice Munro one of our era's true maestros of the short story is always causing for celebration. Unlike many writers, whose short-story writing is an add-on to more well-paid novel-writing, Munro has focused almost entirely on the form she has published only one novel, but 10 volumes of stories. She has proved in her genre and despite Rimsy 4 its limitations, can accomplish more in a single story than most writers achieve in hundreds of pages. Every one of her stories offers a fully realized world unto itself as an ocean in a pot. As Robert Thacker wrote “Munro's writing creates...an empathetic union among readers, critics most apparent among them. We are drawn to her writing by its verisimilitude – not of mimesis, so-called and... Realism– but rather the feeling of being itself... of just being a human being. Munro's stories reflex emotional and literary depth of novels. Some have asked whether Munro writes short stories or novels. Alex Keegan writing in Eclectica gave a simple answer: "Who cares? In most Munro stories there is as much as in many novels." Research on Munro's work has been taken on in the early 1970s with the first PhD thesis published in 1972.
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