ENGL121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alice Munro, Hamartia, Oral Literature
11 Sep 2016
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The context of the essay: people question whether her work is real since it contains aspects of reality. The tone of munro towards the questions is a sense of frustration that people that ask this question do not understand literature o o. She feels that she cannot give a detailed answer in the environment. Shows lack of understanding between autobiography and fiction- relates to aristotle; the technicalities of literature/ poetry: however, contrary to aristotle, munro states that there is no blueprint and no fixed structure. Munro sees stories as structural objects but also wants to see the outside o. Stories and literature are self-contained but also imitate real life (aristotle and munro) The process of writing is not certain - it is intuitive. There is a proper way of framing the ugliness of reality= literature gives us the space to distance ourselves and allow the analysis of life (just like aristotle) o.
