• Manoj CR

Abstract: The following research paper is devoted to a cultural reading of the selected short stories in Alice Munro’s Short stories. 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.

Key words: Social Class, Residual, Emergent, Individuals, Societies, Subject, Servant, Rebel and Exile.

"Topic: The Influence of Canada in Alice Munro’s short stories ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.574-578, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902G78.pdf

"Topic: The Influence of Canada in Alice Munro’s short stories ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp574-578, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902G78.pdf