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❖ 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
❖ and idealism of adolescence, discovering sex, leaving home, falling in love, getting married, having children, getting divorced, and getting along in a variety of complicated relationships, all inform the fiction she creates. “Nettles” is no exception. Her fictional world ranges across the whole breadth of Canada, but her stories that take place in Ontario are rooted in recollected by a perceptive adult memory.
❖ be nettled: be annoyed
nettle英音：['netl]美音：['nɛt!] 名词 n. ❖ 【植】荨麻[C] 形容词 a. ❖ 【植】荨麻科的
及物动词 vt. ❖ 1. 惹怒,使恼火
I was rather nettled by his rude questions. 他的粗鲁的问题使我恼火。 ❖ 2. 用荨麻刺
Nettles
❖ 荨麻
❖ 【英文名】Nettle
❖ 【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。
Nettles
Alice Munro
曲兴 刘丽霞
Alice Munro(1931-)
❖ a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro’s fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario and the Canadian Pacific Northwest, her reputation as a shortstory writer is international. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov."
（Man Booker International Prize ）
❖ A television movie of Lives of Girls and Women was produced in 1994.
《姑娘们和妇女们》
Alice Munro at Giller Prize ceremony of 2004. (CP file photo)
❖ The Progress of Love (1986) ❖ Friend of My Youth (1990) ❖ Open Secrets (1994) ❖ Selected Stories (1996) ❖ The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
Works by Alice Munro
❖ Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
❖ No Love Lost (2003) ❖ Vintage Munro (2004) ❖ Runaway (2004) ❖ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories ( 2006) ❖ The View from Castle Rock (2006,memoir) ❖ Too Much Happiness (2009)
Works by Alice Munro
❖ Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
《荫影之舞》，first collection of stories， Governor General‘s Award
❖ Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
《姑娘Hale Waihona Puke Baidu和妇女们》
❖ The “I” in the story should not be taken as the author herself although the subject matter of Munro’s stories has often developed from her own experience. Munro has explained in various interviews that her stories are not autobiographical, but she does claim an “emotional reality” for her relatively poor provincial southwestern Ontario town during the depression, going through the rebelliousness
Cultural notes:
❖ 1. Uxbridge, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is Canada's second largest province, covering more than one million square kilometers, an area larger than France and Spain combined. More than 12 million people live in Ontario. The province is bounded by Quebec on the east, Manitoba on the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay on the north, and the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes on the south.
II. Outline
Why is the story entitled “Nettles”? Do nettles have any symbolic meaning
here?
❖ Para91 is essential for understanding the meaning of the title of the story. While they were driving back, Mike and the narrator noticed an itch or burning on their bare forearms, the backs of their hands and around their ankles. She remembered the nettles . But those plants with big pinkish-purple flowers are not nettles. They are called joe-pye weeds.
Writing style
❖ In Munro stories, as in Chekov's, plot is secondary and "little happens." As with Chekov, Garan Holcombe notes: "All is based on the epiphanic moment, the sudden enlightenment, the concise, subtle, revelatory detail." Munro's work deals with "love and work, and the failings of both. She shares Chekov’s obsession with time and our much-lamented inability to delay or prevent its relentless movement forward.“
❖ Nettle: a wild plant with rough leaves that sting people
❖ grasp the nettle: deal with an unpleasant situation firmly and without delay迎难而上,大胆 抓棘手的问题
❖ The nettles are stinging insignificant-looking plants with stalks outfitted with skin-piercing spines. Her mistaking joe-pye weeds for nettles implies that ordinary life is more like the insignificant-looking nettles that are stinging and piercing, thus irritating and annoying people rather than the joe-pye weeds with showy pinkish-purple flowers. Real life is disturbing, frustrating, and unsettling, offering no tidy resolution.
❖ Alice Munro, Fiction, “Nettles,” The New Yorker, February 21, 2000, p. 254
About the story “ Nettles”
❖ 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.
《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
❖ and idealism of adolescence, discovering sex, leaving home, falling in love, getting married, having children, getting divorced, and getting along in a variety of complicated relationships, all inform the fiction she creates. “Nettles” is no exception. Her fictional world ranges across the whole breadth of Canada, but her stories that take place in Ontario are rooted in recollected by a perceptive adult memory.
❖ be nettled: be annoyed
nettle英音：['netl]美音：['nɛt!] 名词 n. ❖ 【植】荨麻[C] 形容词 a. ❖ 【植】荨麻科的
及物动词 vt. ❖ 1. 惹怒,使恼火
I was rather nettled by his rude questions. 他的粗鲁的问题使我恼火。 ❖ 2. 用荨麻刺
Nettles
❖ 荨麻
❖ 【英文名】Nettle
❖ 【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。
Nettles
Alice Munro
曲兴 刘丽霞
Alice Munro(1931-)
❖ a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. While most of Munro’s fiction is set in Southwestern Ontario and the Canadian Pacific Northwest, her reputation as a shortstory writer is international. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction," or, as Cynthia Ozick put it, "our Chekhov."
（Man Booker International Prize ）
❖ A television movie of Lives of Girls and Women was produced in 1994.
《姑娘们和妇女们》
Alice Munro at Giller Prize ceremony of 2004. (CP file photo)
❖ The Progress of Love (1986) ❖ Friend of My Youth (1990) ❖ Open Secrets (1994) ❖ Selected Stories (1996) ❖ The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
Works by Alice Munro
❖ Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
❖ No Love Lost (2003) ❖ Vintage Munro (2004) ❖ Runaway (2004) ❖ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories ( 2006) ❖ The View from Castle Rock (2006,memoir) ❖ Too Much Happiness (2009)
Works by Alice Munro
❖ Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
《荫影之舞》，first collection of stories， Governor General‘s Award
❖ Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
《姑娘Hale Waihona Puke Baidu和妇女们》
❖ The “I” in the story should not be taken as the author herself although the subject matter of Munro’s stories has often developed from her own experience. Munro has explained in various interviews that her stories are not autobiographical, but she does claim an “emotional reality” for her relatively poor provincial southwestern Ontario town during the depression, going through the rebelliousness
Cultural notes:
❖ 1. Uxbridge, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is Canada's second largest province, covering more than one million square kilometers, an area larger than France and Spain combined. More than 12 million people live in Ontario. The province is bounded by Quebec on the east, Manitoba on the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay on the north, and the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes on the south.
II. Outline
Why is the story entitled “Nettles”? Do nettles have any symbolic meaning
here?
❖ Para91 is essential for understanding the meaning of the title of the story. While they were driving back, Mike and the narrator noticed an itch or burning on their bare forearms, the backs of their hands and around their ankles. She remembered the nettles . But those plants with big pinkish-purple flowers are not nettles. They are called joe-pye weeds.
Writing style
❖ In Munro stories, as in Chekov's, plot is secondary and "little happens." As with Chekov, Garan Holcombe notes: "All is based on the epiphanic moment, the sudden enlightenment, the concise, subtle, revelatory detail." Munro's work deals with "love and work, and the failings of both. She shares Chekov’s obsession with time and our much-lamented inability to delay or prevent its relentless movement forward.“
❖ Nettle: a wild plant with rough leaves that sting people
❖ grasp the nettle: deal with an unpleasant situation firmly and without delay迎难而上,大胆 抓棘手的问题
❖ The nettles are stinging insignificant-looking plants with stalks outfitted with skin-piercing spines. Her mistaking joe-pye weeds for nettles implies that ordinary life is more like the insignificant-looking nettles that are stinging and piercing, thus irritating and annoying people rather than the joe-pye weeds with showy pinkish-purple flowers. Real life is disturbing, frustrating, and unsettling, offering no tidy resolution.
❖ Alice Munro, Fiction, “Nettles,” The New Yorker, February 21, 2000, p. 254
About the story “ Nettles”
❖ 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.