声明
Acknowledgements
摘要
Abstract
Contents
1.Introduction
1.1 Alice Munro and Southern Ontario Gothic
1.2 Literature review
1.3 Focus and structure of this thesis
2.Southern Ontario Gothic Features of Munro’s Writings
2.1 Southern Ontario Gothic setting
2.1.1 Setting her stories in her hometown
2.1.2 Describing her hometown as a Gothic place
2.2 Gothic stories about ordinary life
2.2.1 Terror from survival
2.2.2 Threat by death,illness and old age
2.2.3 Burden of fantasies and secrets
2.3 Unique ways to create Gothic tension
2.3.1 Terrifying beginnings
2.3.2 Open or surprise endings
2.3.3 Letters and dreams
2.3.4 Female narrators
3.Themes Reflected in Munro’s Southern Ontario Gothic Stories
3.1 Violent nature of human beings
3.2 Helpless situation of children
3.3 Miserable existence of women
4.Conclusion
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