声明
Acknowledgments
Abstract
摘要
Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1．1 Alice Munro’s Life Experience and Writing Career
1．2 Literature Review on Alice Munro’s Works
1．3 Alice Munro’s Latest Masterpiece--Runaway
1．4 The Originality of the Thesis
1．5 Structure of the Thesis
Chapter Two Munro’s Inheritance of O．Henry’s Surprise Ending
2．1 Definition of Surprise Ending
2．2 Surprise Ending in O．Henry’s Stories
2．3 Surprise Ending in Alice Munro’s Runaway
2．3．1 The Reversal of Readers’ Expectations in “Runaway’’
2．3．2 Unexpected Outcome of the Plot in “Runaway’’
2．3．3 The Revelation of the Characters’ Information and Nature in “Runaway”
2．4 Munro’s Innovation of Surprise Ending
Chapter Three Munro’s Inheritance of Henry James’s Psychological Realism
3．1 Definition of Psychological Realism
3．2 Psychological Realism in Henry James’ Works
3．2．1 Center of Consciousness as a Narrative Point of View
3．2．2 Projecting the Interior world of Protagonists
3．3 Psychological Realism in Alice Munro’s Runaway
3．3．1 Applying the Center of Consciousness as a Narrative Point of View
3．3．2 Enhancing the Interior World of Protagonists
3．4 Munro’s Innovation of Psychological Realism
Chapter Four Conclusion
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