ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Alice Munro, Southern Ontario Gothic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Erin Kean

Document Summary

First woman worldwide to win a nobel prize in literature. Started writing short stories about her daily life. Short stories are about the banality of everyday. Known for her fiction about southern ontario (small town communities) Realistic writers seek to write fictional narratives that present a plausible world. Include a variety of concrete details meant to ground their story lines in human experience. A story is possible to occur, familiar characters, realistic setting, no supernatural beings. Realistic locale, time and place, thoughts, actions, and emotions. Narrative is usually linear, plausible characters, activity milieu, the ordinary, the everyday banality. Aim to create the appearance of being truthful, even if the event hadn"t occurred in real life. Undercutting through the story of danger, despair, hidden and suppressed desires.