Alice Munro,renowned Canadian short story writer,ingeniously explores human complexity and the transience of life in a revolutionary short story format.And she is addicted to portraying loss,death,pain,murder,and betr...Alice Munro,renowned Canadian short story writer,ingeniously explores human complexity and the transience of life in a revolutionary short story format.And she is addicted to portraying loss,death,pain,murder,and betrayal etc.,many dark sides of real life.As a female writer,she records the lives of girl and women with unsentimental eyes.展开更多
Alice Munro is one of the famous Canadian writers and is renowned above all for the astonishing subtlety of her short stories.Her theme has often been the dilemmas of the female coming to terms with family, friends in...Alice Munro is one of the famous Canadian writers and is renowned above all for the astonishing subtlety of her short stories.Her theme has often been the dilemmas of the female coming to terms with family, friends in a small town. This paper attempts to make a brief introduction about the stories of Alice Munro's Runaway and explores the protagonist's choices in the dilemma situation, and then exposes the cruelty of reality is that they cannot get rid of the ineluctable reality of life. Escape is only a temporary action which cannot save them from endless triviality of life. What they should do is not to escape from life, but to adapt to the reality of life.展开更多
Alice Munro is a well-known contemporary Canadian writer.She departs from the traditional linear development but employs a seemingly random narrative line as a structural device in her story-telling.In the five short ...Alice Munro is a well-known contemporary Canadian writer.She departs from the traditional linear development but employs a seemingly random narrative line as a structural device in her story-telling.In the five short stories,"Material","Walk er Brothers Cowboy","The Moons of Jupiter","Miles City,Montana"and"Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell you",Mun ro manipulates the use of disconnected narrative time to deal with rites of passage.Free from the conventional time schemes,she expresses her vision in multiple themes and leaves the story open for readers.展开更多
文摘Alice Munro,renowned Canadian short story writer,ingeniously explores human complexity and the transience of life in a revolutionary short story format.And she is addicted to portraying loss,death,pain,murder,and betrayal etc.,many dark sides of real life.As a female writer,she records the lives of girl and women with unsentimental eyes.
文摘Alice Munro is one of the famous Canadian writers and is renowned above all for the astonishing subtlety of her short stories.Her theme has often been the dilemmas of the female coming to terms with family, friends in a small town. This paper attempts to make a brief introduction about the stories of Alice Munro's Runaway and explores the protagonist's choices in the dilemma situation, and then exposes the cruelty of reality is that they cannot get rid of the ineluctable reality of life. Escape is only a temporary action which cannot save them from endless triviality of life. What they should do is not to escape from life, but to adapt to the reality of life.
文摘Alice Munro is a well-known contemporary Canadian writer.She departs from the traditional linear development but employs a seemingly random narrative line as a structural device in her story-telling.In the five short stories,"Material","Walk er Brothers Cowboy","The Moons of Jupiter","Miles City,Montana"and"Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell you",Mun ro manipulates the use of disconnected narrative time to deal with rites of passage.Free from the conventional time schemes,she expresses her vision in multiple themes and leaves the story open for readers.
