The Image Of The Wolf In The Animal Novels Of Chinese Children’s Literature

Aiming at the image of the wolf in the animal novels of Chinese children’s literature, combining the theory of narratology, ecological aesthetics, kidology and other theory, on the basis of the specific text, the paper has researched deeply the unique features of the image of the wolf, exploring the aesthetic connotation and value which embodies, and emphatically has analyzed the narrative characteristic of the animal novels of Chinese children’s literature and innovative significance of the image of the wolf which creates to the whole literary field. The paper has filled the blanks of the research field about animal image of animal novels of Chinese children’s literature.In addition, it can provide writer with some theoretical references about describing the image of the wolf.In the preface, the paper has discussed the concept and types of animal novels of children’s literature, and has given a brief introduction on research status of animal images and the image of wolf in the field of children’s literature, which laid the foundation for later systematic research on the image of the wolf in the animal novels of children’s literature.The first chapter has described the image of the wolf from the two aspects of reality and literature.In reality, the wolf is ruthless and awful,so it was hated by people for a long time.In the literature, the image of the wolf in the adult literature has experienced an evolution process from evil wolf to humanization and diversification,but the animal novels of children’s literature is innovational. It has taken the initiative to absorb the positive side of wolf s quality, emphasizing that wolf is brave, strong, sagacious and wary,which has made the wolf change from a negative image to a positive image and enter the view on children.The second chapter has analyzed the glorious image of wolf in the animal novels of Chinese children’s literature in detail, combining Chinese and foreign classic animal novels of children’s literature.The first three sections has grouped images of wolf into three types according to the gender and age of the wolf, and has illustrated and analyzed images of wolf by representative works of domestic animal novels of children’s literature:The image of male wolf is a defender of dignity and freedom,which can give a person spiritual enlightenment on paternal love. The image of female wolf is a savage and soulful nurturing, which highlights the greatness of maternal love. The image of little wolf is a lively and young striver, which contains the beauty of life. With the help of international comparison of Chinese and foreign classic, the fourth section has analyzed the common character and personality of wolfs image-building in Chinese and foreign animal novels of children’s literature, in order to grasp the integrated shaping of wolf’s image in the animal novels of Chinese children’s literature better. Animal novels of Chinese children’s literature is affected by the realistic narrative style of Western classical animal novels at some extent, abandons the idea of conquering nature and anthropocentrism, but it has obvious characteristics of "personification" in its practice of literary creation, which uses new narration visual angle, such as "perspective of animals", "natural view", creating narrative conflicts of emotion between humans and wolves, and creates a better image of the wolf, more spiritual, more artistic authenticity.The third chapter has discussed the aesthetic connotation and value of the image of wolf in the animal novels of children’s literature from the three aspects of survival philosophy, ecological aesthetics and the subtle relation between the wolf and the children, also the wolf and the writer. From a philosophical point of view, the individual survival of wolf shows great strength about elite consciousness and the group survival of wolf shows great power of teamwork, which can give the reader a revelation of tenacious survival. From an aesthetic point of view, the living environment of wolf is natural and compatible, the life state of wolf is diverse, and the emotional world of wolf is sincere and pure, which can give the reader an abundant aesthetic experience, and convey a ecological ideal of species equality and harmonious coexistence of mankind with wolf. On the relationship between the wolf and the children, the nature of children, the psychological characteristics of children, children’s reading expectation, children’s aesthetic characteristics and other factors make them be willing to accept the image of the wolf in the animal novels of children’s literature, especially the image of little wolf, which can make them produce emotional resonance and harvest the honey of spirit. On the relationship between the wolf and the writer, the writer put his love and respect for wolf into animal novels, and expect children to benefit greatly from animal novels, which reflects deeply the writer’s meticulous care on children growth. The paper believes that the image of the wolf in the animal novels of Chinese children’s literature has extended the wolfs single aesthetic connotation,and has enriched people’s imagination and understanding to the wolf greatly, which can give a new generation of animal fiction writer many beneficial enlightenment, promoting the innovative development of animal novels of Chinese children’s literature.