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Research on Unreliable Narration of Love Writing in “The Bear Came over the Mountain”
ZHOU Jing-wen
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.09.002
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Alice Munro, a famous Canadian Canadian short-story writer. She gained the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. Munro’s works focus on women and adolescents. She also writes about the illness and love of the elderly. “The Bear Came over the Mountain” is one of them. In this story, Munro adopts unreliable narration to depict love between Grant and Fiona. This paper aims to study the love writing and its unreliable narration in this story. Based on the text of love writing, this paper analyzes the specific strategies of unreliable narration. The author believes that the unreliable narration of the love text in the story can be divided into the unreliable narration of character type and information type. Through analysis of these two types of narration in the story, special meaning of unreliable narration to describe love can be found. Besides, Munro’s description also contains her own insight of love: the course of true love does not always run smooth.
Alice Munro, unreliable narration, love
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, September 2023, Vol. 13, No. 9, 635-642
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