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The Small Town's Narrative Of Alice Munro

Posted on:2017-02-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C M GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330485492612Subject:Literature and art
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Alice Munro is an influential Canada short story writer in today's world literary field,Munro has been created a total of 14 sections short novel works,her every section work got the global high praise,Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013,and also become a 13th female writer in the history of the Nobel Prize.In addition,she also more than once won Canada's national various literary award.Munro based on the reality of small town life experience,memories of the type of reproducibility in the text to build a world similar to the real object of the town.What comes from real life and higher than life of literature creation and its unique narrative perspective,excellent writing skills and concise language art style all leavea person deep impression,confirming her contribution in the modern literary world.This article is divided into three chapters to discuss the Alice Munro and small town.The main method is contemporary literary theory, including feminism, narrative, and the theory of stylistics etc. The corresponding criticism theory combined with text analysis method,diversity researching Munro novel creation. Using Munro's some classic short works, especially to those relatively good works which ignored by the critics at home and abroad as the breakthrough point, by the method of close reading to detailed discuss Alice Munro's novel creation and the relationship between the town.Which is Munro how to make full use of consummate artistic technique of expression to show what the real problem and the realistic social life of women. Which revealed the Munro creative thinking and tried to study Munro's novels much deeper.The first chapter combined with Alice Munro's personal life experiences and Canadian society history and culture context to explore Alice Munro's creation and the relationship between town and the town's special social and cultural characteristics.The second chapter mainly focused on those young women's real daily life in the town.Through women growing and maturing process of ordinary life to reveal women's emotion and difficult living conditions in the life.At the same time,Munro also cleverly herself as a woman in the real life experience emotional mixing into her work,making the characters in her works and lives in a small town is like the real world.The third chapter mainly through the method of close reading to conclude Alice Munro's creation of various forms of aesthetic characteristics.Based on the main narrative perspective and narrative method of the novel and the style of realism and her story text form of open style at the end of the literary creation,ingeniously that her novel narrative and the themes to achieve unity and perfection.Literature is often a reflection of the author's own. Writers tend to show own life emotional experiences and thoughts and feelings with the help of characters in the text,Munro is no exception.Munro's some novels are the memory of her small town's life,which reflects her personal emotional experience of life.Munro's showing in the text is the most of her life are experience,that is to say,Munro's works are most autobiographical works,but not all the autobiography.Munro ingeniously put her own life experiences and come into contact with the people and things in life into the story, making her story believable and reality extremely.Munro's novel did not involve significant social historical events,but to focus on living in southwestern Ontario Canada people detailed description of the ordinary trivial life,Munro reflected the Canadian town of the 20th century women's emotional life experiences through people seemingly insipid segments of tiny life.Through the ordinary daily life with exquisite artistry to depict the real life,which shown the figures' real inner emotional world and mental state,and also shown its thinking on the nature of life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Alice Munro, small town, young women, creative skills
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