A Cultural Reading of Alice Munro’s Selected Short Stories in Dear Life Collection (2012).
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2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
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The following research paper is devoted to a cultural reading of the selected short stories
in Alice Munro’s Dear Life (2012) Collection. Our dissertation unlike previous works aims
at studying the cultural issues and the cultural struggle in the Canadian society. The two
levels of culture show the dominant institutions, that role the society by its powerful
institutions as: church and school. The way of life of people and their lived experience can
express culture through the relationships and the personal values. It purports to examine
the two aspects of culture the Residual and the Emergent and their influence on the way of
life of people and their behaviour. It also aims at studying the classification of individuals
in their society according to their reaction to the social forms and values. The importance
of this dissertation is to raise reader’s awareness on how the two levels and the two
aspects of culture that are the Residual and the Emergent cultures represented in the
Canadian society in terms of social class. Also, the way the individuals are classified in
society according to their reaction to social norms and values. To achieve our purpose we
have relied on Raymond Williams’ theory of culture The Long Revolution (1961) and
Marxism and Literature (1977). . Being primarily concerned with the cultural reading of
Alice Munro’s short stories, this paper has demonstrated the different aspects of culture
and the influence of the emergent and the residual cultural behaviors on societies. The
analysis of these selected short stories has highlighted the interaction between individual
and society. We have concluded that Alice Munro’s short stories have, to a great extent,
corroborated Raymond Williams’s concepts about cultural development within western
societies.
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53p.; 30cm+(cd)
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Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches