English 1900 Lecture Notes - Alice Munro
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Considered to be one of the masters of the short story. 1st canadian to receive the nobel prize in literature (last year oct. 10th) Nurse atkinson: unappealing individual, bossy, arrogant, pretentious. Robert: gets away with a lot, doesn"t have much of a personality to speak of. Men are virtually absent in the story. Narrator: we assume that the narrator is a woman because it is all about women. Your professor sat in the middle of the class today to: Changed the focal point of the class. The narrative is so powerful that they can"t escape the power and authority. Attempted to disrupt the narrative of the classroom. However it cannot be disrupted because the narrative is so powerful. Who would be the author of this narrative (of the course situation): the professor. Who would be the narrator: everyone is constructing the narrative of the classroom and the course itself.
