| Mystery is a kind of sensory experience of human beings towards the unpredictable world; mystery is the true way of the being of the universe, which enables us to reach the broader realm of life. The short stories of Alice Munro (1931-) are the best examples. She is the winner of Nobel Prize for literature in 2013 and the "master of the contemporary short story". As a female author with a special sensitive and gentle mind, Munro makes her works both in form and content emerge a mysterious temperament and have a unique aesthetic value. Through close reading method, based on the worldview of Poetic Mysticism, a mysterious world of Alice Munro’s short stories and its causes are analyzed, which convey a poetic world outlook of returning to the truth, loving life, and enhancing life. Munro pursues the great realm of life that the limited life is harmonious with the poetic infinite universe, and explores the ultimate secret of the universe:the human heart and its caprices.The thesis is mainly based on the five collections of short stories of Alice Munro, respectively:Lives of Girls and Women, The Love of a Good Woman, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Runway, and Too Much Happiness. The thesis consists of five chapters. The "Introduction", chapter one, first begins with the mystery and Munro’s literary career and achievements, and then reviews the domestic and foreign research on Munro, and finally gives a brief introduction to the theoretical basis and the framework of this thesis. Through the text analysis, chapter two shows the mysterious world of Alice Munro’s short stories from three aspects of the story, characters, and style. Chapter three analyzes the reasons for the formation of Munro’s mysterious world from three aspects:Canadian regional culture, the writer’s life experiences, and the short story’s way of conveying the meaning. Chapter four mainly discusses the aesthetic value of mystery of Alice Munro’s short stories. Alice Munro makes fiction return to a pure state, achieving an authentic art beauty; she is close on the ultimate cosmic secret of the human mind, releasing the beauty of life. Chapter five is the conclusion, which first summarizes the full analysis, and then concludes that Alice Munro’s short stories reach a tenderness state, resulting in her fiction being closer to the depths of the human soul... |
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