Nettles-Alice Munro艾丽斯·芒罗 荨麻英文介绍PPT
LectureNettles
Thanks for Your Patience!
• The author begins her story in a rather unusual way, and the plot of her story does not follow the normal chronological order. She starts her narration from 1979 in the brief beginning paragraph. But right after that she switches to “years afterwards” in the second paragraph. And from paragraph 3 to 15 the time is shifted to her childhood when she met and made friends with a boy called Mike. From paragraph 16 the narration is shifted back to 1979 again. So the text is made up of three parts
Part I
• This part serves as the prelude of the story, providing necessary background information of the story such as the time, place and the main characters.
theme
About the story “ Nettles”
• the short story "Nettles“ ,which first appeared in New York in 2000, is included in this book. in this story , the author uses first person narration. the plot of story evolves around a middle-aged woman's reunion with a childhood boy friend in 1979,but it moves back and forth between past and present . like most other stories by Munro, the leading actor is a woman.
爱丽丝梦游仙境--英文PPT课件
Mad Tea Party. The Cat is th. e closest friend Alice
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It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
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About the author
Alice Munro: Her other books are all short story collections: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974); Who Do You Think You Are? (1978, titled The Beggar Maid in English and American editions); The Moons of Jupiter (1982); The Progress of Love (1986); Friend of My Youth (1990); Open Secrets (1994); and Selected Stories (1996). • Who Do You Think You Are? and The Progress of Love won the Governor General's Award. • Her latest book, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage(2001), is a collection of nine short stories. Nettles is one of them. • In one novel and eight collections of stories she has established herself as a major voice among fiction writers.
Chronology
• 1979–82: Novel The McGregors: A Novel of an Ontario Pioneer Family, by Munro‘s father, Robert Laidlaw, is published posthumously; Munro tours in Australia, China, and Scandinavia. • 1980: Writer-in-residence at University of British Columbia and University of Queensland. • 1982: Moons of Jupiter is published. • 1984: The short live-action film adaptation of Munro‘s story ―Boys and Girls‖ wins an Oscar • 1986: The Progress of Love is published; wins Governor General‘s Literary Award and Marian Engel Prize. • 1990: Friend of My Youth is published; wins Canada Council Molson Prize and Trillium Book Award.
Nettles-Alice-Munro艾丽斯·芒罗-荨麻英文介绍PPT教学内容
1. “Nettles”
英国沙玛歇特地方的人，昵称白色野 荨麻花为“树荫下的亚当与夏娃”。 因为在花瓣的金冠下，有一对宛若亚 当和夏娃的黑色和金黄色的雄蕊，所 以白色野荨麻花的花语是“相爱”。 凡是受到这种花祝福而生的人，非常 重视人与人的相遇。他相信可以和美 好的人相亲相爱而度过快乐的人生。
5. The Nobel Prize
On 10 October 2013,Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, cited as a “master of the contemporary short stories”.
She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 1951,she left university to marry fellow student James Munro.
2. Middle-aged life
Munro married James Munro in 1951. They had four daughters, one died 15 hours after birth.
4. Career
The Governor General‘s Award 总督文 学奖 Munro’s first collection of stories Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) won the General’s Award.
In 1978,Munro’s collection interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are earned a second Governor General’s Literary Award.
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Nettles
Time：1979
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Ontario, Canada Characters: The narrator, Mike, Sunny, etc. The plot: the climax and the epiphany The theme?
The
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does the author begin the narration? Do you find this beginning interesting or peculiar? Why or why not? The author begins her story in a rather unusual way. She starts her narration from 1979 in the brief beginning paragraph. This allows her to infuse her stories with a sort of floating suspense, inducing the readers to continue.
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
《我一直想要告诉你的事》
Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
《你以为自己是谁？》
The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
《朱庇特的月亮》
Works by Alice Munro
加拿大总督文学奖堪称是加拿大最大的国家级文学奖，每年评选 一次，由评审从上千件的英语、法语作品中评选出入围作品与得主， 颁给小说、戏剧、非小说、儿童文学(文字和插图)、诗歌及翻译六大 奖项。 从1937年到现在，加拿大总督文学奖在奖项和奖金等方面都有 所不同。例如1937年的第一届得奖者是没有奖金的，1951年才开始 有250元美金的奖金鼓励，2000年之后则提高到15,000元美金；2005 年开始，除奖金之外，得奖作品经手工制作成皮革装版本后，颁赠给 得主；出版商也能得到3,000元美金作为推广作品的经费；入围者则 可获得1,000元美金。 因此，现在的奖金总额已经超过30万元美金。 在奖项范围方面，1937年仅限于用英语写作或从法语翻成英语 的小说、非小说、诗歌、戏剧，到1959年加拿大艺术委员会(Canada Council for the Arts)接掌此文学奖的运作后，在该年增加了以法语写 作作品之奖项；1987年又增加儿童文学(文字)和儿童文学(插图)等两 个奖项。
爱丽丝漫游仙境英文版ppt
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Characters
Alice
• She was seven years old. She was friendly and kind, she was also imaginative.
• But she also had some disadvantages, such as she was a crying girl, and she always tried to be brave.(逞强)
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Good sentences
• Nothing’s impossible.——Alice • It’s no use going back to yesterday , because I was a
different person then . • Why is a raven like a writing desk?为什么乌鸦像写字台？
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Lewis Carroll （27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898）
• He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. There were societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.
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Queen of Hearts
• She was a foultempered monarch, that Carroll himself describes as "a blind fury", and who was quick to give death sentences at the slightest offense. Her most famous line, one which she states often, was "Off with their heads!"
爱丽丝漫游仙境英文版 ppt课件
Social background
• "Alice in Wonderland" was completed in 1865, the Vitoria era (1837-1901). The genres of literature and art of Vitoria era include Classicism, Neo Classical, Romanticism, impressionist art and Post Art. It’s hard to get rid of the brand of the times.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
writing style
• The British sense of humour(英国式诙谐)
• A word of double meaning(双关)
• The fickle society and opposite concept
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Plot
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland tells the story of the little girl Alice chasing a white rabbit who can talking and held a pocket watch , felling down a rabbit hole, and met a magical mysterious world.
• He was a priest, so he didn’t get married in his life and had no child .
荨麻爱丽丝门罗英文赏析
荨麻爱丽丝门罗英文赏析生动的细节描写Vivid details作为-一-个女性作家，芒罗还用大量微妙的细节来增强了故事的真实性。
Helen 认为流畅的语言和对细节的把握,是芒罗小说最显著的特点(1980)。
《尊麻》一文细节的描写有很多,特剃是男孩和女孩玩打仗的游戏。
男孩子都是打仗的战士,每一个女孩都为一个男孩服务,为他做子弹(土球)和受伤时包扎伤口。
我是为迈克制造子弹,迈克受伤时当然也是叫我的名字。
一听到叫我的名字,我感觉特别的激动,仿佛电流传满全身。
迈克受伤的时候,闭若眼睛,静静地躺着。
我给他头上、脖子上包上粘糊糊的叶子,然后再解开他的衣服,把叶子贴在他白皙的肚皮上,那个长着小巧的肚脐的地方。
最后被打死的人都复活了,游戏在一片争吵之中结束。
这种细致入微的描写,孩子们无忧无虑的童年、我和迈克两小无猜的感情就跃然纸上,也给读者带来一种似曾相识的儿时体验。
当主人公和迈克再次相遇时,作者还三次用到分量(weight)这个词来描述她对迈克的情感:迈克把手放到我的肩上,可以感到他手的重量(weight);暴雨后,迈克要讲出心理的秘密,他的声音中有一种沉重(weight),警告和歉意;最后,我悟出爱像地下的一弯清泉,用责任(weight)封盖。
As a female writer, Munro also uses a lot of subtle details to enhance the authenticity of the story. Helen believes that fluent language and mastery of details are the most prominent features of Munro's Novels (1980). There are many details in zunma, especially the war game between boys and girls. Boys are soldiers in war. Every girl serves a boy, making bullets (earth balls) for him and bandaging his wounds when he is injured. I made bullets for Mike. Of course, Mike called me when he was injured. As soon as I heard my name called, I felt very excited, as if electricity was flowing all over my body. When Mike was hurt, he closed his eyes and lay quietly. I wrapped sticky leaves around his head and neck, then untied his clothes and stuck the leaves on his white belly, the place with a small navel. Finally, those who were killed were resurrected, and the game ended in a quarrel. This meticulous description makes the children's carefree childhood and the feelings between Mike and I jump onto the paper, and also brings readers a childhood experience of deja vu. When the protagonist meets Mike again, the author also uses the word weight three times to describe her feelings for Mike: Mike can feel the weight of his hand when he puts his hand on my shoulder; After the rainstorm, Mike wanted to tell his psychological secret. There was a kind of weight, warning and apology in his voice; Finally, I realized that love is like a spring under the ground, sealed with responsibility.除了这些细节描写,《荨麻》一文还有精彩的隐喻,使得情感和场景的描述更加生动,形象。
Nettles--Alice Munro讲解
NettlesBy Alice MunroGuide to ReadingAlice Munro is a prolific writer, who has made a major career1out of short fiction2. In the past 35 years, she has produced numerous short stories that are read in and outside of Canada, often appearing in such prestigious magazines as The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. Today she is still active in her writing career.Like her many other stories, the subject of the story “Nettles” is about the problem of a middle-aged woman—the passions, confusions and dilemmas that any woman in a modern society might be confronted with, regardless of race, color or nationality. In this story, the narrator meets her childhood friend by chance at the very stage of her 1(事业的)成就，成功2Described by The New York Times as "the only living writer in the English language to have made a major career out of short fiction alone," Munro's work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Conner, George Eliot, and Anton Chekhov. Mona Simpson, writing in The Atlantic Monthly, described Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage as "a book that must be owned....The highest compliment a critic can pay a short-story writer is to say that he or she is our Chekhov. More than one writer has made that claim for Alice Munro."life when she is caught up 3in a troubled relationship with her husband and her children. She is delighted with this reunion. This joy quickly turns into a tender and ambiguous feeling toward this man--a desire and passion she herself is not sure of. The two of them go through a wild4storm. In order to protect themselves from being knocked down5 by the violent wind, they hold each other firmly. When the wind passes6, they kiss and press together in a gesture of recognition of survival. At this moment the man tells her his deepest secret. She realizes that “he was a pe rson who had hit rock bottom7.” She is happy that he treats her as a “person he had, on his own, who knew.” What happened or rather8, what does not happen 3catch up: To become involved with, often unwillingly牵涉，牵连：被卷入，经常是不情愿地; 使陷入was caught up in the scandal涉及丑闻4狂暴的5打倒，击倒；撞倒；击落6终止；消失(常与away 连用)7also reach rock bottom: to reach the lowest possible level or be in the worst possible situation. She used illegal drugs for eight years and quit before she hit rock bottom.The department has reached rock bottom, with employees being fired and supervisors facing criminal age notes: also used in the form be at rock bottom: Grain prices are now at rock bottom.8确切地说,说得更准确些between them gives her a new perception9of love, “Love that was not usable, that knew its place. Not risking a thing yet staying alive as a sweet trickle10, an underground resource.”The narration of this story is marked by a clear regional identity and shifts in time with a prominent element of retrospection11revealing the protagonist’s ambiguous ho ld of the past, throwing light on12the present. The author employs a skillful but natural narrative voice, which effortlessly leads the reader on toward an open13and yet conclusive ending. While reading the story, the reader is likely to forget that this is only a fiction and that the protagonist is but a character created by art. The author succeeds in bridging the gap between14 art and reality and presenting the fictional character as an acquaintance or even a friend. Thus the reader is apt to15identify with16the protagonist, feeling what she feels and worrying about what worries her. 9感受；知觉；了解10细流；涓流11回顾, 回想, 追溯12阐明,有助于说明,使...明白; 使人理解某事;使某事更为清楚[亦作shed (或throw a flood of) light on (或upon)]13正在考虑的，尚未决定的，悬而未决的，仍需要考虑的an open question悬而未决的问题14消除(…之间的)隔阂；弥合(…之间的)差别15往往；易于；动辄；有…倾向；有…可能16跟…产生共鸣In this short story the author addresses17several essential problems of everyday life such as friendship and love, marriage and divorce. Once again “Nettles” displays Munro’s lasting strength that arises from her ability to create an illusory18simplicity that combines the telling of a simple plot and the probing of complicated feelings and subtle meanings of life.Text1.In the summer of 1979, I walked into the kitchen of my friend Sunn y’s house near Uxbridge, Ontario, and saw a man standing at the counter19, making himself a ketchup sandwich.2.I have driven around in the hills northeast of Toronto, with my husband－my second husband, not the one I had left behind that summer－and I have looked for the house, in an idly persistent way, I have tried to locate the road it was on, but I have never succeeded. It has probably been torn down. Sunny and her husband sold it a few years after I visited them. It was too far from Ottawa, where they lived, to serve as a convenient summer place. Their children, as they 17处理，对付；讨论，论述181. 幻觉的，错觉的；梦幻似的；迷惑人的2. 虚幻的；虚假的；不实际的19 A flat surface on which money is counted, business is transacted, or food is prepared or served 柜台，餐桌：数钱，进行交易，准备食物或放食物的平面; (厨房中的)长台面，案子became teenagers, balked20at going there. And there was too much upkeep21work for Johnston －Sunny’s husband－who liked to spend his weekends golfing.(Rewritten as: Years afterward, driving around in the hills northeast of Toronto with another man22, I looked for the house. I tried to locate the road it was on, but I never succeeded. It had probably been torn down23. Sunny and her husband sold it a few years after I visited them. It was too far from Ottawa, where they lived, to serve as a convenient summer place. )I have found the golf course24－I think it the right one, though the ragged25verges have been cleaned up and there is a fancier26clubhouse27. 20(遇到障碍时)停止并拒绝向前，中止并拒绝做(指定的事情)；在…面前犹豫，踌躇，畏缩，从…退缩，回避(通常与at连用)21(建筑物、设备等的)维护；维修；保养; 维修费；保养费22丈夫, 情夫，情郎，男朋友23扯开；拆卸；拆毁The old cinema was torn down and replaced by a restaurant.老电影院被拆毁，取而代之的是一个饭店。
Nettles--Alice Munro讲解
NettlesBy Alice MunroGuide to ReadingAlice Munro is a prolific writer, who has made a major career1out of short fiction2. In the past 35 years, she has produced numerous short stories that are read in and outside of Canada, often appearing in such prestigious magazines as The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. Today she is still active in her writing career.Like her many other stories, the subject of the story “Nettles” is about the problem of a middle-aged woman—the passions, confusions and dilemmas that any woman in a modern society might be confronted with, regardless of race, color or nationality. In this story, the narrator meets her childhood friend by chance at the very stage of her 1(事业的)成就，成功2Described by The New York Times as "the only living writer in the English language to have made a major career out of short fiction alone," Munro's work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Conner, George Eliot, and Anton Chekhov. Mona Simpson, writing in The Atlantic Monthly, described Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage as "a book that must be owned....The highest compliment a critic can pay a short-story writer is to say that he or she is our Chekhov. More than one writer has made that claim for Alice Munro."life when she is caught up 3in a troubled relationship with her husband and her children. She is delighted with this reunion. This joy quickly turns into a tender and ambiguous feeling toward this man--a desire and passion she herself is not sure of. The two of them go through a wild4storm. In order to protect themselves from being knocked down5 by the violent wind, they hold each other firmly. When the wind passes6, they kiss and press together in a gesture of recognition of survival. At this moment the man tells her his deepest secret. She realizes that “he was a pe rson who had hit rock bottom7.” She is happy that he treats her as a “person he had, on his own, who knew.” What happened or rather8, what does not happen 3catch up: To become involved with, often unwillingly牵涉，牵连：被卷入，经常是不情愿地; 使陷入was caught up in the scandal涉及丑闻4狂暴的5打倒，击倒；撞倒；击落6终止；消失(常与away 连用)7also reach rock bottom: to reach the lowest possible level or be in the worst possible situation. She used illegal drugs for eight years and quit before she hit rock bottom.The department has reached rock bottom, with employees being fired and supervisors facing criminal age notes: also used in the form be at rock bottom: Grain prices are now at rock bottom.8确切地说,说得更准确些between them gives her a new perception9of love, “Love that was not usable, that knew its place. Not risking a thing yet staying alive as a sweet trickle10, an underground resource.”The narration of this story is marked by a clear regional identity and shifts in time with a prominent element of retrospection11revealing the protagonist’s ambiguous ho ld of the past, throwing light on12the present. The author employs a skillful but natural narrative voice, which effortlessly leads the reader on toward an open13and yet conclusive ending. While reading the story, the reader is likely to forget that this is only a fiction and that the protagonist is but a character created by art. The author succeeds in bridging the gap between14 art and reality and presenting the fictional character as an acquaintance or even a friend. Thus the reader is apt to15identify with16the protagonist, feeling what she feels and worrying about what worries her. 9感受；知觉；了解10细流；涓流11回顾, 回想, 追溯12阐明,有助于说明,使...明白; 使人理解某事;使•某事更为清楚[亦作shed (或throw a flood of) light on (或upon)]13正在考虑的，尚未决定的，悬而未决的，仍需要考虑的an open question悬而未决的问题14消除(…之间的)隔阂；弥合(…之间的)差别15往往；易于；动辄；有…倾向；有…可能16跟…产生共鸣In this short story the author addresses17several essential problems of everyday life such as friendship and love, marriage and divorce. Once again “Nettles” displays Munro’s lasting strength that arises from her ability to create an illusory18simplicity that combines the telling of a simple plot and the probing of complicated feelings and subtle meanings of life.Text1.In the summer of 1979, I walked into the kitchen of my friend Sunn y’s house near Uxbridge, Ontario, and saw a man standing at the counter19, making himself a ketchup sandwich.2.I have driven around in the hills northeast of Toronto, with my husband－my second husband, not the one I had left behind that summer－and I have looked for the house, in an idly persistent way, I have tried to locate the road it was on, but I have never succeeded. It has probably been torn down. Sunny and her husband sold it a few years after I visited them. It was too far from Ottawa, where they lived, to serve as a convenient summer place. Their children, as they 17处理，对付；讨论，论述181. 幻觉的，错觉的；梦幻似的；迷惑人的2. 虚幻的；虚假的；不实际的19 A flat surface on which money is counted, business is transacted, or food is prepared or served 柜台，餐桌：数钱，进行交易，准备食物或放食物的平面; (厨房中的)长台面，案子became teenagers, balked20at going there. And there was too much upkeep21work for Johnston －Sunny’s husband－who liked to spend his weekends golfing.(Rewritten as: Years afterward, driving around in the hills northeast of Toronto with another man22, I looked for the house. I tried to locate the road it was on, but I never succeeded. It had probably been torn down23. Sunny and her husband sold it a few years after I visited them. It was too far from Ottawa, where they lived, to serve as a convenient summer place. )I have found the golf course24－I think it the right one, though the ragged25verges have been cleaned up and there is a fancier26clubhouse27. 20(遇到障碍时)停止并拒绝向前，中止并拒绝做(指定的事情)；在…面前犹豫，踌躇，畏缩，从…退缩，回避(通常与at连用)21(建筑物、设备等的)维护；维修；保养; 维修费；保养费22丈夫, 情夫，情郎，男朋友23扯开；拆卸；拆毁The old cinema was torn down and replaced by a restaurant.老电影院被拆毁，取而代之的是一个饭店。
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2. Middle-aged life
Munro married James Munro in 1951. They had four daughters, one died 15 hours after birth.
In 1963,the Munros moved to Victoria where they opened Munro’s Books. Alice and James Munro divorced in 1972. In 1976,she married Gerald Fremlin.
6. Major Works
Dance of the Happy Shades—1968 Lives of Girls and Women—1971 Who Do You Think You Are—1978 Friend of My Youth—1990 The Love of a Good Woman—1998 Runaway—2004 Too Much Happiness—2009
3. Recent life
Munro and Fremlin moved to a farm outside Clinton, Ontario, and later to a house in Clinton, where Fremlin died in 2013. In 2009 Munro indicated that she had received treatment for cancer.
The Governor General‘s Award 总督文 学奖 Munro’s first collection of stories Dance of the Happyห้องสมุดไป่ตู้Shades (1968) won the General’s Award.
In 1978,Munro’s collection interlinked stories Who Do You Think You Are earned a second Governor General’s Literary Award.
1. “Nettles”
英国沙玛歇特地方的人，昵称白色野 荨麻花为“树荫下的亚当与夏娃”。 因为在花瓣的金冠下，有一对宛若亚 当和夏娃的黑色和金黄色的雄蕊，所 以白色野荨麻花的花语是“相爱”。 凡是受到这种花祝福而生的人，非常 重视人与人的相遇。他相信可以和美 好的人相亲相爱而度过快乐的人生。
The short story “ Nettles”, which first appeared in New Yorker in 2000, is included in this book. In this story, the author uses first person narration. The plot of story evolves around a middle-aged woman’s reunion with a childhood boy friend in 1979, but it moves back and forth between past and present. Like most other stories by Munro, the leading actor is a woman.
Munro began writing as a teenager. She published her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow,” in 1950.
She study English and Journalism at the University of Western Ontario. In 1951,she left university to marry fellow student James Munro.
4. Career
5. The Nobel Prize
On 10 October 2013,Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, cited as a “master of the contemporary short stories”. She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2. Nettles
1. “Nettles”
Nettle: a wild plant with rough leaves that sting people
荨麻 【别名】蜇人草、咬人草、蝎子草，防盗草、 无情草、植物猫、咬人猫 【分类】荨麻科 Urticaceae，荨麻属 Urtica L. 【习性】喜阴植物，生命旺盛，生长迅速， 对土壤要求不严，喜温喜湿。 【生境分布】广泛分布于亚欧大陆，在我国 分布在云南中部、贵州、四川东南部、湖北 和浙江。
The subject of “Nettles” is about the problems of a middle-aged woman, the passions, confusions and dilemmas that any woman in a modern society might be confronted with, regardless of race, colour or nationality.·
1. “Nettles”
As we can see, the word “nettles” in the story has both meanings, the literary meaning, that is the plant with rough leaves that sting people Figurative meaning, that is something irritate and annoy people. It may not be farfetched to suggest that the author is comparing life, human relationships, etc. to the effects of nettles.
Nettles
By Alice Munro
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1. Alice Munro
Alice Munro
(1931--)
<“Our Chekhov ">
2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
“master of the contemporary short story”
1. Early life
6. Writing Style
Strong regional focus. Many of Munro’s stories are set in Huron County, Ontario. The omniscient narrator who serves to make sense of the world. Her male characters tend to capture the essence of the everyman, while her female characters are more complex.