The Doxologie Of "Sleeping Beauty"

In the history of west literature,the "Sleeping Beauty" is a story which full of variety and long-standing and well-established.From ancient epic to chivalric romances,from the Charles Perra's "the Story of Mother Goose" to "Grimm's Fairy Tales",the story of“Sleeping Beauty”has never disappeared but presents the trend of diversification by the times changing.As world's classic children literature,“Sleeping Beauty”enjoys great popularity among adults and children.This paper chose three different visions to analyze the connotation of the story "Sleeping Beauty”thoroughly.First,the vision of classical literature.This chapter mainly studies“Sleeping Beauty”in the period of classical literature and focuses on exploring the epoch theme and realistic significance behind the“Sleeping Beauty”through inquiring of the content,the intention of author,the main target audience of the“Sleeping Beauty”under different historical background.During this period,for the purpose of satisfying the actual demands of different era,the“Sleeping Beauty”grows from a fragment text into an independent and mature literary story and.While every shift is strikingly stamped with mark of the times.Second,the vision of modern literature.With the process of the times,the“Sleeping Beauty" has been diversified within its content and form under the modern circumstances.one of the best known is the“Rose Princess" in Grimm's Fairy Tales and Disney's animation.First,this chapter takes "Rose Princess" as an example to investigate the reason why“Sleeping Beauty”enjoys such popularity among children according to Matsumura's view about“several major elements of children literature”and contrasting the content of“Sleeping Beauty”,moreover,discusses why“Sleeping Beauty”as children literature enjoyed the popular among the adults through the psychological and aesthetic perspective.Second,this chapter takes Disney animation film Sleeping Beauty as an example,analyzing the innovation of the "Sleeping Beauty" under the modern literature vision and its significance behind the innovation.Third,the vision of contemporary literature.This chapter mainly takes Angela Carter's“Bleeding Hollow”and dark fairy tale“Sleeping Beauty”as two examples to analyzing the literary significance of“Sleeping Beauty”respectively from female perspective and aesthetic principle under the background of contemporary literature.The conclusion maintains that the value of each era contained within the story "Sleeping Beauty" and the literary value have extraordinary significance for the studies of later generation.