The Beauty Of Narrative Changes

Alice Munro is a Canadian female writer and also one of the most famous short story writers around the world.By virtue of her excellent works,Alice Munro won various literary awards,such as the thirteenth female winner of Nobel Prize for Literature,and Canada's highest literary prize award---Governor General's Award for three times.Munro's works got multiple themes,obtained clear narration and flexible plots.Seemingly her stories are simple and lucid,but behind the writer's distinctive application of narrative art,it is the exhibition of the writer's close attention and profound thinking about daily trivial and social problems.The thesis divides the selected stories into three groups,each group with two and makes comparison between them from six aspects:narrative time,narrative rhythm,narrator,narrative focalization,narrative perspective and the transformation of narrative perspective.By analyzing the formation and development of the selected short stories' narration,this thesis would put forward with the answers to such questions as how the writer presented the personality of those characters vividly and how she discussed social problems skillfully in her works.In the end,the comprehensive analysis of Munro's unique narrative art would be concluded.Considering the research situation of Alice Munro and her works at home and abroad,the current emphasis mainly focuses on the discussion of themes,the features of characters,feminism and the textual analysis,while the study concerning with narrative art is not sufficient.Specifically speaking,Munro attached great importance to the application of narrative time and narrative rhythm in the process of writing,the change of "now"and "past",ellipsis,pause and the use of repetition,all inclining to strengthen the narrative rhythm,emphasizing the theme of the novel and important plots,manifesting the personality of characters.In addition,Munro arranged different characters to tell the same event or to let the same person talk about different things,depicting the psychological activities and physical behavior incisively and revealing the deep implication as well.Munro broke the shackles of conventional writings,either the form of the short stories or the plot strikes to pursue the style of simplicity and stability.And it is this technique that makes Munro's stories more fascinating.Meanwhile,Munro made careful scrutiny on the selection and transformation of narrative perspective,taking advantage of the first person retrospective perspective,the first person perspective,the limited third person perspective and omniscient third person perspective.Based on the six works of Alice Munro,with the in-depth research and analysis,this thesis reveals the narrative art of Alice Munro to some extent.By using unique and exquisite writing methods,Alice Munro offers her readers excellent works.Although the length of Munro's works is quite short,the application of narrative art in each work can be regarded as genius.Narrative perspective,narrative voice,narrative time,narrative rhyme and so on are all showed in Munro's works and Munro is good at adopting various kinds of narrative art,intending to provide the readers with good works.