Runaway: Stories (Knopf, 2004) by Alice Munro Early in his discussion of Alice Munro's tenth collection of short stories, Professor Miller promises to trace the way she revives the psychology of the Romanticist Movement, adds a dose of Freud and blends them both into her own original psychological approach. He intends to expand on Russell Banks' remarks about Munro's "technical genius." He concludes with a rebuttal of critics who say she exibits no social consciousness and he summarizes her implicit message: "I have traced Munro's alliance with Wordsworthian psychology because we must not let custom weigh on us; not see getting and spending as living. Like Tessa, we might be content with what we are, meaning we must know what we are. Like Nancy, we could think it's fine to be ambitious but what about other people? From Munro, we infer that we should make friends with our own intuition, imagination and naivete."                 Click to hear sample Return to Available Programs