On Female Writing In Alice Monroe's Novels

Alice Munro is one of the most important contemporary writers in Canada, the first Canadian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, also the 13th female writer in the history of Nobel Prize in Literature Awards. So far, Alice Munro has published 14 novels:Dance of the Happy Shades(1968)?Lives of Girls and Women(1971)?Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You(1974)?Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)?The Moons of Jupiter (1982)?The Progress of Love(1986)?Friend of My Youth(1990)?Open Secrets(1994)?The Love of a Good Woman(1998), Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage(2001)?Runaway(2004)?The View from Castle Rock(2006)?Too Much Happiness(2009)?Dear Life(2012). In 2013, regarded as the most important writer in Canadian literary world and the master of the contemporary short story, Alice Munro won the Nobel Price in Literature.As a contemporary female writer, Alice Munro not only has unique developmental trajectory of female thoughts, but also establishes a colorful female world in her writing, some of which involve historical and realistic problems of female lives. So Munro's female writing is the most out-standing literary achievements. This article focuses on Alice Munro's female writing to explore her outstanding achievements.Except the introduction and conclusion, this article is divided into four part.The first chapter discusses Alice Munro's literary achievements of female writing. Chapter One begins with her growth and writing experiences, listing her literary achievements. It can never be an accident for Alice Munro to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She views writing as a race with time and has never stopped writing for 40 years, so it's no doubt that she has achieved a lot in literary writing. Then the article analyzes the attention and research about her writings from international commentators after she has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Chapter Two discusses the female world.By the research about the quantities of female figures female's core role in Munro's novels, Alice Munro explains that the female world is colorful.Then pay attention to the main problems and explore Munro's concern about ordinary female life and their destiny.The second chapter expresses the contradiction in female thoughts. Firstly, it explores Alice Munro's feminism basic position, assuring that she is a feminism writer.Then compare her with other European feminists, conclusion can be drawn that Munro is not an extreme feminist. It also approves of the contradiction in female thoughts.The third chapter, according to the intensive reading, explores how the female consciousness changes. Begin with the intensive reading of Boys and Girls?Lives of Girls and Women?Runaway, it gradually explains the changes of main character's female consciousness: from self-awareness to self-pursuit, then self-realization, forming an obvious change track.The fourth chapter discusses the intertextuality between Alice Munro and feminist pioneer, Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf. Firstly, it analyses the intertextuality between Boys and Girls and The Second Sex. Then it analyses the intertextuality between Office and A Room of One's Own. Finally, it makes the history inheritance of Munro's female thoughts and features clear.