Abstract: This paper introduces Alice Monroes writing background of focusing on ordinary women, describes the experiences of several main female characters in her collection of short stories Runaway such as Carla in Runaway, Juliet in Cha...

Abstract: Alice Munro is a famous Canadian writer who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is well known for her short stories and regarded as the contemporary master of short stories. Runaway, her masterpiece, has been wel...

Abstract: As the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature，Canadian writer Alice Munro is called the master of the contemporary short story. The Progress of Love is a short story collection published in 1986. The first piece which b...

Abstract: This paper tries to probe into the causes of the tragedy of Tess. Tess is the central figure in Thomas Hardys novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Tess was born in a poor peasant family and she was a beautiful and honest girl, with...

Abstract: Alice Munro is one of the famous Canadian writers and renowned of her short stories. She is internationally recognized as one of the great short story writers in English. Her accessible and moving stories are mostly written from...

Abstract: Love is an everlasting pursuit, but people, in different times and of different social backgrounds, have different concepts about love. In real life, no matter how perfect an ideal love may be, it cannot stand the strike of crue...

Abstract: Patriarchy is a system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress and exploit women. In a patriarchal society, women are oppressed by men and become subordinates of men. Influenced by second-wave feminism,...

Abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth Century, the American Dream exists in the heart of everyone. American Dream means getting better life through hard work and struggle. In Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald portrays the scene of Ame...

Abstract: Theodore Dreiser is one of the greatest writers in the 20th century in the United States. His representative work, An American Tragedy, describes the ambitious young man, Clyde Griffith, who wants to be a member of the upper-cla...

Abstract: Alice Munro is one of the most prominent writers in contemporary Canadian literature. She writes of women in most of her stories. She focuses on what happens to the existential dilemma of contemporary Canadian women in civilized...

Abstract: The fictions of Franz Kafka are full of many ironical allegories. Through the description of the inner action and the change of the relationship between family and Gregor, the story reflects an alienation of the human beings and...

Abstract: Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer and novelist, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. Munro has received the Governor General's Award for Fiction three times. The short film adaptation of her story Boys...

Abstract: In the world of literature, there is a unique style of literature which has always attracted readers with its wonder and glamour. This style of literature is fantasy fiction. Fantasy fiction can be traced back to a very old time...

Abstract Katherine Mansfield is one of the most celebrated short story writers in the world. Most of her works focus on the theme of life and death, dream and reality. The Garden Party is one of her representative works, which demonstrate...

Abstract Edgar Allan Poe is not only a great successor of European gothic stories, but also an outstanding promoter of American gothic literature. Most of his famous horror stories display a variety of gothic features. This thesis aims to...

Abstract The bluest eyes, written by Toni Morrison, mainly tells a story about the tragic and grievous life of an eleven year old black girl, named Pecola Breedlove who is desperately eager for the acceptation of the society and the peopl...

Abstract A Clean, Well-lighted Place, a representative work with the application of iceberg principle, is one of the best short stories written by Ernest Hemingway, a world-renowned American Nobel Prize winner of literature. This paper at...

Abstract: Toni Morrison, one of the most famous and splendid black writers in American Literature, won the 1993 Nobel Prize Winner of Literature. Maternal love is an invariable and profound theme in Toni Morrisons works. In her classic no...

Abstract: Alice Munro is a Canadian writer and well-known as Chekhov of Canada. She was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. Munro is good at writing stories about women. In her early works, heroines are some girls who have just e...

Abstract： The Unbearable Lightness of Being is Milan Kunderas most famous work, which was once praised as the most important work in 20th century by New York Times. In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera puts forward the reflecti...

Abstract: Alice Munro is known as one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction and Canadian Chekhov. The short stories she wrote have obtained many literary awards. In 2017, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Moon of Jupit...

Abstract: What is Remembered is a short story written by Alice Munro who is a famous Canadian writer. It successfully creates Meryl's vivid image. It describes a woman's love and marriage, which is the essence of pursuing the perfect happ...

Abstract: Thomas Hardy is an outstanding author of English critical realism in the 19th century. Jude the Obscure is his last and the best critical realist novel. The love tragedy and the mentality of Jude and Sue in this novel reflect th...

Abstract ： What is a real life? I would like you to think for a few seconds. What is a real life for you? Is it something subjective or objective? Is it something easy or difficult to answer? Maybe, if we go beyond, I can ask you what i...

Abstract: Alice Munro is a Canadian short story writer, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, becoming the first Canadian to take the award since its launch in 1901. The Swedish Academy awarded her master of the contemporar...

Abstract: Animal Farm is one of the most famous novels in the world written by George Orwell. It is a political fable novel. It is written based on the history of the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution(1917) to the Tehran Conference...

Abstract: Poetry is one of the most ancient literary forms in the world, and belongs to one of the literary genres by conveying their internal feelings. Poetry is characterized by refined languages and the perfect artistic skills to depic...

Abstract: This paper probes into the first eponymous story in Canadian woman writer Alice Munros anthology of short stories Runaway. At the beginning, this paper introduces the author of this story and her works. Next it discusses the inn...

Abstract: Nettles is one of short stories in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage(2017) which was written by Alice Munro. The author uses Nettles as the title of the story. As implied by the narrator of this story, life is...

Abstract: Doris Lessing is the winner of Nobel Prize in 2017, her first writing The Grass Is Singing is full of the opinion of ecofeminism. This paper attempts to analyze the novel from the view of ecofeminism, mainly from three aspects t...