A Comparative Study Of Ecriture Feminine In Works Of Alice Munro And Ding Ling From The Perspective Of Narratology

Alice Munro, who is a famous Canadian short story writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. Ding Ling was one of the outstanding female writers in Chinese modern literature. As two famous feminist writers, the works of Alice Munro and Ding Ling bear distinctive characteristics of ecriture feminine, and they expressed women's frustration and depression in the patriarchal society by ecriture feminine. The author selected Lives of Girls and Women and Miss Sophie s Diary as the research objects, both of which describs women's escape from the patriarchal society via different pattern of ecriture feminine, but previous studies paid little attention on it. This thesis compares the distinctions of ecriture feminine in works of Alice Munro and Ding Ling from narratology, and analyzes the reasons causing these differences.Through systematic research and analysis, the author finds that in the aspect of narrative perspective, both of the two works occupies internal point of view. Lives of Girls and Women concerns not only the inner world of narrator, but also casts views on the issues about history, society and individual development of female, but Miss Sophie s Diary puts more attention on narrator's inner world and her emotion. As for the narrative voice, the two novels intend to use direct speeches to strengthen persuasiveness. However, there are obvious distinctions in writing female experience and female desire. In the respect of narrative structure, the narrative structure of Lives of Girls and Women is unlinear structure while that of Miss Sophie's Diary is linear polyphonic narrative structure.Although Alice Munro and Ding Ling are all feminist writers, the different social environments they lived caused different characteristics of ecriture feminine. The living environment and life experience of Alice Munro make her works to be themed by ordinary life of ordinary women in suburban towns. Thus her works show concerns about personal growth of women and other social issues such as religion, history and so on. China underwent the May Forth Movement when Ding Ling began her literary creation, she fled to Shanghai for escaping from forced marriage, so that her works at that time mostly described female consciousness and the confusion and anxiety in female heart.The comparative analysis about the two feminist works from the perspective of narratology can not only deepen readers understanding about the two novels but also provide a new angle for observing feminist works. Besides, the current study tries to provide reference for self-construction of modern female.