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Nettles Alice Munro Highlights Alice Munro up Writing style transferred epithet Words and phrases after the text Animals Plants Pre-reading question Text Carl G. Jung Narrative structure implication of the title theme of the story Alice Munro(1931-) 爱丽丝·蒙若 a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada‘s Governor General’s Award for fiction. (加拿大总督文学奖) Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro’s fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario and the Canadian Pacific Northwest, her reputation as a short-story writer is international. Her accessible, moving stories explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munros writing has established her as one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction, or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, our Chekhov. Major Works Dance of the Happy Shades (荫影之舞1968) Lives of Girls and Women(1971) Divorce in 1972 Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974) Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) The Progress of Love (1986) Friend of My Youth (1990) Open Secret (1994) The movie Away From Her 《柳暗花明》is adapted from Alice??Munro’s “The??Bear??Came??Over??the??Mountain” 这是一部探索老年性痴呆患者家庭的爱与关怀的电影。 Writing style In Munro stories, as in Chekovs, plot is secondary and little happens. As with Chekov, Garan Holcombe notes: All is based on the epiphanic (顿悟的) moment, the sudden enlightenment, the concise, subtle, revelatory detail.“ Writing style Munros work deals with love and work, and the failings of both. She shares Chekov’s obsession with time and our much-lamented inability to delay or prevent its relentless movement forward.“ Alice Munro, Fiction, “Nettles,” The New Yorker, February 21, 2000, p. 254 Canada’s ten largest urban areas by population in 2006 1. Toronto（多伦多）, Ontario province 4,753,120 2. Montreal（蒙特利尔）, Quebec 3,316,615