Beauvoir's Feminist Literary Theory And It's Influence

The feminist thought and literary theory of Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), a pioneer and founder of feminist literary criticism, have a far-reaching influence on the development of woman movement and feminist literature throughout the world. Since the western feminist literary criticism affected China in the 1980's, her works have been preliminarily translated and studied. However, all in all the studies of Simone de Beauvoir and her works are not thorough and systematic. In Europe and America, the development of feminism is riper. In view of her profound analysis of women's history and social situation, her works' concerns and concentrated representation of women's condition, and her practice and vanguard role in the aspect of improving the women's situation, Beauvoir's theories, works and practice have been studied all-sidedly, systematically and thoroughly, except that there is not a book on the studies of her feminist literary theory and practice because all the analysis as to those aspects are scattered in the studies of Beauvoir herself and her works. The breakthrough and significance of the thesis is that after carefully studying the books and reviews in existence at home and abroad, and sorting out Beauvoir's feminist literary theory and practice, the author has taken initiative in giving prominence to the initiation of Beauvoir's ideas and to her great contribution on the basis of excellent research achievements. Moreover, the author hopes that the thesis will help the scholars at home correctly understand and accept Beauvor's feminist criticism theories and thoughts, and promote our country's practice and development in the field.The thesis consists of three parts. The first part focuses onexpounding Beauvoir's feminist thoughts centered on the idea that women are changed into instead of being born to give prominence to the initiation of Beauvoir's ideas. The second part expounds the major attainments of her feminist literary theory based on the formation theory of women being changed into. The last part takes up the influence of Beauvoir's far-reaching feminist literary theory to the later ages.