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1、 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 of Living in Dear Life Abstract: In the development history
2、 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 deep feelings in her works. Her short story Dear Life is co
3、nsidered 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 rare work of art, suddenly finding that its profound connot
4、ation 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
5、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 is aimed to explore the nature of life through the analys
6、is 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. Alice Munro and her short stories. Inevitable Reality of Li
7、vingA. 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. Unexpected theatricality. The implication of theatricality. The
8、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 waiting of love in all ones lifeConclusion13 Lu Jianyu Lu Jianyu
9、English 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 trivial description, most of ordinary women in
10、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 ordinary womens figures in order to explain the inde
11、scribable 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 the relationship between art and life exist
12、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 for a female short novel writer, Alice Munro
13、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 Periodicals- Munro album all refer to litera
14、ry 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 recent years, Munro is known by more and more s
15、cholars 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 of feminism and analyze female figures in her
16、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). Dear Life is Alice Munros newest short novel,
17、 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 ordinary people as the starting point in her works.
18、 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 the separate stories. From different stories
19、 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 brilliant new collection, Alice Munro gives
20、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 woman deciding whether to confront a blackmai
21、ler, 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 autobiographical tales are not totally imaginary
22、 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 exploration of life. Exalted by her clarity of vision
23、 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 statements and contents, or links up uncorrelated con
24、tent 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 modify and adjust after finishing the struct
25、ure 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 limitation between fiction novel and the non-fiction
26、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 unique female perspective to interpret complex t
27、hings, 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 does not involve too esoteric, but try to resto
28、re 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 style, simplicity and sincerity of a text have
29、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 neglected, and in the marginalized position in the
30、 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 short novel. That Alice Munro chooses short novel
31、 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 conditions, the creative period of Munro is in
32、 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 limitati
33、on of layout, which is main reason for Munros first contact with short novel. On the other hand, women often struggle hard in constraint of marriage and family. The literary writing cannot be regarded for women as a stable occupation, but is only a hobby. Alice Munro is not only a great writer but a
34、lso an eligible mother, wife. So before she is a famous writer, she also needs to try her best to balance her family and creation just as ordinary women. Munro regards short novel as her own specific way of looking at and understanding this world. She said that I am no longer interested in polishing
35、 perfect novel. I hope to write my story to convey strong life experience.5 So in her later works, Munro regards short stories as her main genre entirely because of her personal orientation. All in all, whether in the creative language or the connotation of the expression, her short novel can be sai
36、d to be very artistic and profound. . Inevitable Reality of Living A. The confrontation between reality and fantasy Reality and fantasy are contradictory, which is the basic principle of dialectical materialism. In real life, the confrontations between reality and fantasy are widespread. Alice Munro
37、 inevitably keeps a watchful eye on the conflict of the reality and fantasy in ones life. Constant switching between the reality and fantasy is considered to be the humans awakening and indulging to a certain extent. Ideological contradictions usually indicates the complexity of womens ideas. In Mun
38、ros works, women are often hovering between reality and fantasy, especially young women. In their ordinary life, they go after and even are crazy for romance, love, adventure and fantasy. They are eager to break the shackles of the spirit, but it is always difficult to really get rid of the troubles
39、, because the troubles are always lingering in their minds. In the first story To Reach Japan, Alice Munro just shows mixed and entangled feelings of the ordinary people when facing the dilemma between reality and fantasy. Alice Munro uses the characteristic of stream of consciousness to display ord
40、inary womens spirit and emotion under the ambivalent condition. The stream of consciousness itself is the collision and continuation of the emotion in the free state of mind.2 In fact, To Reach Japan is not about drifting to Japan, and even can be said that has nothing to do with Japan, which is ass
41、ociated with the stream of consciousness. Interest in your stream of consciousness maybe takes you to awareness means the ductility and extensity of human beings consciousness are always around reality. In To Reach Japan, the young Greta has a unbroken but prosaic family. Her husband Peter is a youn
42、g engineer who has the tolerant attitude of art, and she has a daughter Katie. One day Greta meets a gentle man named Harris at a writers party, and has a crush on him. Then Greta traps in fantasy about another mans love, eventually she even attempt to get rid of family moral constraints, sending Ha
43、rris a letter, Writing this letter is like putting a note in a bottle / And hoping / It will reach Japan(Munro 14). She imagines another meeting with Harris, Nearest thing to a poem in some time(Munro 14). Her writing talent and inspiration has been burst out, which implies the runaway of her spirit
44、 and the infinite fantasy escaping from reality. The fact is that a poem itself is the product of fantasy. Greta expresses her delicate feelings to Harris by creating poetry with her own romantic feelings, and she has a thirst for adventure to meet her desire for passion. This is first time that Gre
45、ta was eager to far away from everything in real life. Then, on the train to Toronto Greta comes across a man named Greg as a childs theatre actor and develops an improper relationship with him. When finally she realizes that she almost lost Katie on account of her shameful behavior and carelessness
46、, deep fear and self-accusation takes a wide place in her heart. When Greta suddenly realizes that poetry is a kind of betrayal to life, she also realizes that she is absolutely wrong and cannot ignore the reality of fantasy. So shame and guilt for the family make Greta realize her betrayal of real
47、life in her soul. This is the second time that Greta was indulge in her own fantasy but had to be coward because of her family and the reality. However in the last scene, Harris gives her a kiss after Greta and her daughter arriving in Toronto, which makes Greta completely addicted in this kiss agai
48、n. She once again gets lost in the fantasy and attends to throw reality and moral boundaries away, but when she tries to hang onto her daughter, the children pulls away and gets her hand free at that moment. Her daughter Katies departure brings her into reality. “She did not try to escape, she just s