Research On The Selection Of Angela Carter’s Book Of Fairy Tales

Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales is a collection of folk fairy tales compiled by feminist writer Angela Carter.There are many studies of folk fairy tales in academic circles,but little research on the selection of folk fairy tales.Most researchers focus on the content of folktales,and few pay attention to why and how to choose.This paper sorts out and studies the text and historical background of Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales,clarifies the selection background and theoretical basis behind the author,and studies the selection idea,characteristics and propagation effect of Angela Carter,so as to play a certain reference role in the selection and compilation of domestic folk fairy tales.The first chapter is the introduction.It introduces the topic origin and significance,introduces Angela Carter’s achievements and contribution in feminist fairy tale,and systematically combed the research results of Angela Carter at home and abroad under the background of the second wave of feminist wave,and finally determine the research approach and research methods of this paper.The main body of the paper is divided into four chapters: the first chapter combs the origin and selection ideas of Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales.Angela Carter began to compile this story collection under the dual background of the development of fairy tales and the second wave of feminism,so her selection ideas have the following points: extensively collecting fairy tales from all over the world,truly and completely retaining the original appearance of fairy tales in oral narration,and selecting stories that only belong to the female.The second chapter changes from the combing of history to the study of the text.Taking the catalog of the story collection as a clue,we outline a complete journey of women’s life.These stories present a different world view from the classic fairy tales,and also tell the survival experience of women.In the third chapter,continue to go deep into the text to study the female images concentrated in the story,and these female images include runaway women,heroines,mother and daughter,sisters,witches and fairies.These female images expand the breadth and diversity of women,reaffirming the other side of women being suppressed by male editors.Chapter four transition from the text to the outside world,focusing on the selected effect of Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales,which studies this story in the spread and accept of the mainland,with douban reading short comments as the survey object,it can be seen that most Chinese readers have the positive attitude at this story,they agree,love this story focus variety of female image,shows huge inclusive and artistic charm of the Angela Carter strange story.