An Analysis of the Art of Living in Dear Life浅析《亲爱的生活》中生活的艺术.docx

1、An Analysis of the Art of Living in Dear Life 浅析亲爱的生活中生活的艺术An Analysis of the Art of Living in Dear Life ContentsAbstractOutlineIntroductionI. Writing Characteristics of Dear Life.2II. Inevitable Reality of Living.4III. Attractive Artistry of Living.7Conclusion.10BibliographyAn Analysis of the Art o

2、f Living in Dear Life Abstract: In the development history of literature, there are many excellent and brilliant female writers. The Canadian writer Alice Munro is one of the representative female writers. Munro won the Nobel Prizes for literature in 2013 because of the simple style of writing and d

3、eep feelings in her works. Her short story Dear Life is considered to be the most abundant, the most perfect, the most autobiographical novel, and is interpreted by Munro as the first, the last, and the closest things I have to say about my own life. Reading this book is somewhat like looking at a r

4、are work of art, suddenly finding that its profound connotation is difficult to be covered up by the beauty of the surface. Therefore, we can see her artistry in both creative language and connotation.Key words: Alice Munro; life; artistic connotation浅析亲爱的生活中生活的艺术 【摘要】在文学发展史中，出现了很多优秀且独具一格的女性作家，其中加拿大

5、著名的女作家爱丽丝门罗就极具代表性。爱丽丝因她用朴实的文笔，在作品中传达出的深沉情感获得了2013年诺贝尔文学奖。她的短篇小说亲爱的生活被认为是其最丰富，最完美，最具有自传性质的一部作品，并被门罗诠释为“从最初到最后，直到灵魂的最深处”的关于生活的艺术品。当阅读这本书时,就像在审视一件难得的艺术品,然后恍然发现深刻的内涵是难以被表面的美丽掩盖住的。因而可以看出，她的作品不论在创作语言还是所表露的内涵上都极具艺术性。关键词：爱丽丝门罗；生活；艺术内涵 An Analysis of the Art of Living in Dear LifeThesis statement: This paper

6、 is aimed to explore the nature of life through the analysis of some common but extraordinary stories in Dear Life, and reveal the emotional skeleton of Alice Munro.Outline:Introduction. Writing Characteristics of Dear LifeA. The basic construction of Dear LifeB. Alice Munros writing techniques C. A

7、lice Munro and her short stories. Inevitable Reality of LivingA. The confrontation between reality and fantasy. Stream of consciousness. Three times runawayB. Mental growth of teenage Alice Munro . Psychological realism. The first understanding of love and sex. Attractive Artistry of LivingA. Unexpe

8、cted theatricality. The implication of theatricality. The emotional change of Vivian a. Terrible impression on Focus b. The acceptance of Focuss proposal c. Mournful condition of being abandoned B. Aesthetic concept of sentiment. The relationship between art aesthetic and emotion. Leaving and waitin

9、g of love in all ones lifeConclusionLu JianyuEnglish 2012051110Wang LanmingMay 1st .2016An Analysis of the Art of Living in Dear LifeIntroduction Alice Munro as the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013, her high literary attainments is beyond doubt. In Munros elaborate and even almost tr

10、ivial description, most of ordinary women in her works live in the most ordinary life, but these female desires are full of anxiety and uncertainty. Although they try to struggle and revolt in their minds, their thoughts are confused, pulled by reality and healing. Alice Munro shapes so many ordinar

11、y womens figures in order to explain the indescribable meaning of life and tells her own feelings towards life. Her newest short novel Dear life shows the perception of individual living conditions, the exploration of human nature and the irresistible force when facing intricate life. The nature and

12、 the relationship between art and life exist in the themes of her works all the time. Although her stories are seemingly simple and trivial, people can still inadvertently peep into the real life in miniature from these stories. After Nobel Prize for literature in 2013 for the first time is awarded

13、for a female short novel writer, Alice Munro gradually enjoys great prestige in the literary field at home and aboard. In western countries, most of studies about Alice Munro are mainly divided into two categories, literary criticism and the narrative studies. Ten papers published in English Fiction

14、 Periodicals- Munro album all refer to literary criticism to analyze Alice Munros works (Ventura 2010). In Magazine Narrative, most of body of the second issue revolve about the perspective of narration to spread (Lohafer 2012). Although in China domestic researches of Alice Munro are unusual, in re

15、cent years, Munro is known by more and more scholars and readers. Before Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature, domestic researches about her and her works are divided into three categories in terms of researchs content. Many scholars deeply study some of Munros works from the perspective o

16、f feminism and analyze female figures in her works (Dong Shanshan 2009). Some people are fascinated by Munros narrative techniques (Zhou Yi 2011). Others further study and pay close attention to the relation between the regional culture of Canada and Munros creative identity (Tan Min, Tao Tao2012).

17、Dear Life is Alice Munros newest short novel, so until now very few people spend time studying this works. To reveal complexity and nothingness of people of the town in the ordinary life, Munro often regards ordinary female characters as the protagonist and pinpoints the inner feelings of the ordina

18、ry people as the starting point in her works. This paper is aimed to explore the nature of life, clearly reveal the emotional skeleton of Alice Munro and dissect the art of living that depicted by Alice Munro in Dear Life. Four representative women in Dear Life are selected as the main characters of

19、 the separate stories. From different stories and fates of these four women, readers can see what on earth real life is. . Writing Characteristics of Dear Life A. The basic construction of Dear Life Alice Munros Dear Life is composed of fourteen tales. They are independent for each other.And in this

20、 brilliant new collection, Alice Munro gives a detailed description of the moment a person is always altered by a unexpected chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully figures: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiance, a wealthy

21、woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected daughter, a guilt-ridden father, a young lady abandoned by her lover. Enlightened by Munros acute insight, these lives draw in with their quiet depth and surprise people with unexpected turns.1 The last four aut

22、obiographical tales are not totally imaginary but root in her real life. We can see that an astonishing suite of the last four autobiographical tales offers an unprecedented glimpse into Munros own childhood. Alice Munro also regards these four tales with autobiographical nature as a simple explorat

23、ion of life. Exalted by her clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, Dear Life shows how placid, intricate, and extraordinary ordinary life can be. B. Alice Munros writing techniquesAlice Munro belongs to postmodernism creation style, she permutes and combines different statemen

24、ts and contents, or links up uncorrelated content and form in the same story. And Alice Munro does not deliberately plan and have a subtle layout in the creation process of the content and the structure in her short stories, but with the migration and extension of the idea of narrative, she tends to

25、 modify and adjust after finishing the structure of a story. Alice Munro breaks through the tradition of creation oneness, and perfectly combines fact with imagination in her works. Her works are from life, but are not entirely reproduction of original life. The most obvious evidence is the limitati

26、on between fiction novel and the non-fiction novel is fuzzy when Munro creates the last four stories in Dear Life. She merges fact, image and feelings into one. Therefore, it is so amazing that she achieves perfectly the combination of tradition and breakthrough. Alice Munro is good at using the uni

27、que female perspective to interpret complex things, and dig out those details that has always been ignored in life. So Munro has been focusing on the psychological description of ordinary women with a lot of details to reveal their complex and intense emotions. In addition, the theme of her works do

28、es not involve too esoteric, but try to restore the most real life of ordinary women. Despite the fact that in her short novel simple language, simple structure is used, but the depth of works is the same as novel. In this work, Dear Life, there are no twists and turns. But refer to her excellent st

29、yle, simplicity and sincerity of a text have revealed out Munros intelligent views towards life. She is realistic rather than preaching; is the description and non inductive; is art rather than scientific, is philosophical rather than religious.3 C. Alice Munro and short stories Short novel is negle

30、cted, and in the marginalized position in the long-term. For decades, Alice Munro has been focusing on the creation of short novel. Nobel Prize for literature is awarded for a short novel writer for the first time, which is enough to illustrate the remarkable success of creation of Alice Munros shor

31、t novel. That Alice Munro chooses short novel as her own form of creation subverts the traditional concept that the writing level of a writer needs to be measured through a novel.4 The creation of short novel and her Canadian and female writers identity are closely linked. In terms of the external c

32、onditions, the creative period of Munro is in the heyday of the development of Canadian literature, and a series of literary column founded by Weaver, Godfather of Canadian literature, provides a wide platform for Munros short novels. In the early stage of the creative process, Munro must control the length of her works because of the limitation