| Alice Munro has been titled as “one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction”. Her short story collection “Run away” is world—famous. The delicate description of the ordinary female's fate in her fiction depicted out the true face of their depressing life. In those collections such as “Dance of the Happy Shades”,“Lives of Girls and Women”, “Hate,Friendship,Courtship, Love, Marriage”, Munro constructs story with unparalleled narrative skill which makes the story full of rich artistic feature and profound connotation.This paper starts with the concept of Munro's literature creation--“back to life itself”.The patriarchal society caused the world showing little attention even ignored to woman's inner world. That's why the most obvious parts of Munro's novel is female's strong heart cry.Munro as a female writer who has been a housewife all her life has a deep feelings with those unfair treat.So the words “back to life itself”also means to understand woman's inner world in a new and deep way all over again.Secondly, Munro like writing about nobody, most of her story developed with nobody's ordinary life.Munro's seclusion lifestyle which last for almost half a century take most of responsibility to the theme she chosen.She almost living in the town of Ontario all her life where she born and grown up.She used to living and be pleasured living in that little town. There she realized the true meaning of life, that is to be simple and real.At last,because of the special history of Canada, Munro praise highly of literature stay away from political. That's why her works is always obviously have no business with political. To some extent, the concept “back to life itself” is also about “stay away with political”.It is easy to find some good conduct which exist in most of brilliant writers as well as Alice Munro-- showing humanitarian care to lower-class people, explored and thinking about the real humanity. But we should pay more attention on the life view witch showing in her literature creation, “back to life itself”.When she narrating a story, she use plain and slowing words to highlight the twist and turns oflife. However, to the contrary, life is not telling in simple and obvious, so Munro skillfully express the life's changeably by narrate story in time and space transformation angle.On the frame structure, Munro deeply reflected the true face of life is back to simple by using the art feature of anti-drama and anti-fairy tale.At last,on the connotation parts,Munro support to writing story in a object way, because life itself don't have ability to judge. Beside of this, she also support to find the real truth,to reveal humanity, and proposal to be meaningful to be noble.When reading Alice Munro, once always get a totally new experience, there also exist great charming even it was a plain and not excited story. The power of literature not only come from ornate rhetoric,nor the twists and turns plots. It will also need a great work to representlife with no trace. This is the literature revelation that Alice Munro wants we know. |
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