1. Nettles

2. ?Nettle 1. Any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation ; 2. Cause annoyance in; disturb.

3.  ALice Munro's literary map;  Nettle complex into her short story;  Enlightenment gained for life. mental or emotional problem relating to it, unpleasant experience in the past.

4.  Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2013; ALice Munro' s literary map

5.  Winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. 1. Dance of the happy shades (1968) 2. Who do you think you are (1978) 3. The Progess of love (1986) Alice Munro 's Literary map

8. regional focus This ordinary place is sufficient, everything here is touchable and mysterious. Alice Munro's Literary Map

9. Feminine focus The stories encompass a wide variety of always - unpredictable characters -young, old,middle-aged caught in circumstances that have the bright erratic flow of life itself" The Seattle Times Alice Munro's Literary Map

10. ?? Nettle complex Nettles complex over periods of time. LOVE, MARRIAGE, SICKNESS, DEATH...

11. A bright,avid girl grows up in rural Ontario without much money, she escapes from the hinterland by some decisive self- interested act, she marries young. Nettle Complex Run away

12. bound marriage...The air that was air to other people was to me a hostile jelly. But the children came in from the yard and my husband came homefrom work and i made dinner. I didn't tell anybody. Lives of Mothers and Daughters Nettle Complex

13. We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time. Dear Life Nettle Complex

14. As a female individually, experience of "wilderness". New understanding of "survival " in life differently.

15. Enlightment life messy

16.  Can a better kind of fiction save the world ?  There 's always some tiny hope,but the answer is almost certainly no, it can't;  There's some reasonable chance, however, that it could save your soul.  she is speaking to you and to me right here, right now.

17. ALice Munro: Our Chekhow

18.  References 1. Lives of Girls and Women. Harmondsworth: Penguin,1984. 2. Hateship, Friendship, courtship, Loveship, marriage. London:Chatto& Windus,2001. 3. Dear Life. London: Chatto & Windus, 2012. 4. Alice Munro :Writing Her Lives.a biography. Robert Thacker,2011. 5.http://v.pps.tv/play_3613C3.html?vfm=2008_aldbd. 6.http://sourcesofinsight.com/vulnerability-talk/.

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