(?)criture Féminine In Alice Munro's The Love Of A Good Woman

Alice Munro is a prominent writer on contemporary Canadian literary scene. She is a virtuoso in writing short stories. Her stories are mainly written from the perspective of women in a realistic style, to explore the unique psychology of women and their life experiences. Although she is not known as a fiercely feminist writer, her stories are praised for their persistent attention on and lucid, sympathetic depiction of women's complex life experience, their love experience, sexuality, maturing, aging, their pleasure and plight. Her 1998 collection The Love of a Good Woman, which centers on the lives and vicissitudes of independent women during the late 20th century, was warmly received and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.The thesis argues that there is an inherent unity in the eight stories collected in The Love of a Good Woman and they mutually complement one another. All of them share the same nature of ecriture feminine, which is a term used by second-wave feminists such as Cixous and Irigary to refer to gendered women's writing. In order to explore the nature of ecriture feminine, and the techniques Munro uses to achieve it in The Love of a Good Woman, this thesis examines the stories from three aspects:body writing, psychological writing, and intertextual writing in this collection, employing the approaches of feminist theories, psychoanalysis, narrative theories, and intertextuality theories.To interpret The Love of a Good Woman from the perspective of ecriture feminine can not only further introduce Munro's works in China, and offer us a fresh angle to broaden and enhance the study of Munro's works, but also help us reflect on the conditions of contemporary women's lives, and provide useful advices on women pursuing independence, freedom, and happiness.