摘要：The subject evolution as the core of psycho-philosophical debates is verbalized in Alice Munro’s “Runaway” (2004). Whereas the subject is one of the seminal ideas of the contemporary philosopher Julia Kristeva, it provides an integral part of the discussions over the character’s subjective development in fiction. The present study undertakes to discuss over the latent aspects of character in the story to show how they are developed in the Abjection. Through transgression and revolt, they are posited on the borders of symbolic. The objective of this paper is to highlight the subject evolution and to demonstrate the uncertainty and ambiguity felt by the characters due to transgressing the borders of symbolic. To this end, Julia Kristeva’s concept of Abjection will shed light upon the rise and fall of the character in order to study how they are formed through the abject. Considering the development of subjectivity in “Runaway”, it shows that they are conceived to be ‘subject-in-process’ rather than being the Lacanian static, ordered subject. A Kristevian reading of Munro’s short fiction presumes the abject part of characters indispensable for the evolution of their subjectivity. Threatening the integrity of the subjectivity, the characters attempt to overcome the double effect of seduction and repellent in abject and restore the secure territory of symbolic. Never to be consent with their lives, the characters stand on the verge of abjection which permanently summons them to revolt.
其他摘要：The subject evolution as the core of psycho-philosophical debates is verbalized in Alice Munro’s “Runaway” (2004). Whereas the subject is one of the seminal ideas of the contemporary philosopher Julia Kristeva, it provides an integral part of the discussions over the character’s subjective development in fiction. The present study undertakes to discuss over the latent aspects of character in the story to show how they are developed in the Abjection. Through transgression and revolt, they are posited on the borders of symbolic. The objective of this paper is to highlight the subject evolution and to demonstrate the uncertainty and ambiguity felt by the characters due to transgressing the borders of symbolic. To this end, Julia Kristeva’s concept of Abjection will shed light upon the rise and fall of the character in order to study how they are formed through the abject. Considering the development of subjectivity in “Runaway”, it shows that they are conceived to be ‘subject-in-process’ rather than being the Lacanian static, ordered subject. A Kristevian reading of Munro’s short fiction presumes the abject part of characters indispensable for the evolution of their subjectivity. Threatening the integrity of the subjectivity, the characters attempt to overcome the double effect of seduction and repellent in abject and restore the secure territory of symbolic. Never to be consent with their lives, the characters stand on the verge of abjection which permanently summons them to revolt.
