A Study On The Aesthetic Value Of "Little Woman 's Prose"

The rise of "Little-ladies’ prose" means that the urban daily writing of women has widely attracted people’s attention. This paper make the aesthetic value as a starting point, and uses the research methods of literary sociology, as well as the methods of comparative analysis and case analysis to study the "Little-ladies’ prose" combining the features of Essays with the influence of the feminist thinking. One one hand, it can unearth the mental connotation of the females as an independent individual in the turn of the century; On the other hand, it gives reference of values for the following female essays.The main body of the paper is divided into four parts.Chapter One:First, it analyses the forming background of "Little-ladies’ prose". Ten years after the policy of reform and opening, the advanced development of market stimulates the mass consumption. Female prose after May 4th Movement and female prose of Hong Kong and Taiwan affects the modern feminist prose. "Little-ladies’prose" emerged in such social and literature background. The study of its two origins clarifies the concept, and it points out that the essence is exactly the urban essay written by contemporary women.Chapter Two:It mainly illuminates the meaning of the aesthetic value of "Little-ladies’ prose" and deals with the specific contents of urban essays under Feminist. Besides, it analyses how this aesthetic value reflect from the typical contemporary images.Chapter Three:It measures the aesthetic value mainly from the prospect of individual level,social level and literature level. In terms of creators and receivers,it analyses the aesthetic value in the individual level; In terms of recording social phenomena and evaluating the civilization, it illuminates the aesthetic value in the social level; In terms of female writing and literature popularization, it studies the aesthetic value in the literature level.Chapter Four:It makes a thorough inquiry about the modern derivatives of the aesthetic value of "Little-ladies’ prose". As a literature style only existing at the end of 20th century, it has the apparent modernity. It mainly displays in three aspects:it relies on the dissemination of modern media; it stipulates the market economy and fosters the consumerism culture; it breaks through the form of prose and infiltrates the other literature forms.The paper argues that in the process of the "Little-ladies’ prose",After the interaction between aesthetic subject and aesthetic object, it will reflect their aesthetic value. Thus this paper not only inspects the age, society and other external factors but also it analyses deeply of the aesthetic psychology of the creating subject and audience. This is just the innovation of this paper.