Literary Imagination of Construction of Community With a Shared Future in Alice Munro’s Stories

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200709.017How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Alice Munro, Ecological writing, Literary imagination, Community with a shared future

Abstract

Alice Munro has made a great contribution to Canadian literary history because of her writing about her own town and nation in a style of realism and the achievements she has gotten in short-story writing. Under her pen, the life of the city, community and family is full of stress and tension in a piece-looking way. The meaningful narration underlying her story embodies ecological color to novels. This article draws many writings of Munro’s stories and analyzes the meaning of space writing, body writing, scenery writing and relations writing. Heroine living environment in the works and their relationship with men and nature. The various types of writing shows writer’s ecological writing consciousness, expands stories’ deep connotation. In this sense, Alice Munro’s novels provide significant thoughts about construction of a community with a shared future by stories’ literary imagination.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haixia Zhang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/09
TI  - Literary Imagination of Construction of Community With a Shared Future in Alice Munro’s Stories
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 70
EP  - 73
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200709.017
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