On The Difficulty Of Reception Concerning Literature Fairy Tales For Children

This thesis tries to interpret the evolvement of the child view in history and the reception of fairy tales in this process. From the integrating of the theory of reception, the theory of writing and the history of thought, the thesis stresses on answering why today's classic literature fairy tales which intend to please children would lead to the difficulty of reception for children, and become the canonical works in adult literature instead.'The child view', which is the product of modern history, means people begin to avoid the dark side of life on purpose and show the bright side to children. While, on one side, the physical foundation of children's mind determines the relative fixity of their reception of literary, which means children are fit for accepting the story full of fantasy and imagination. On the other side, as a type of literature, the nature of fairy tale requires its writers to keep creating new modes and exploring new ways of writing in order to produce new classical writings. The process of this classical creation entails the fact that the writer must constantly take the form of'patricide'to overcome the'influencing anxiety'brought by canonical texts in history, and unceasingly absorb the nutrients from modernist literature and get close to its spirit and idiosyncrasy. For this is the very mistake of the dislocation between the receptivity and the purpose of writing, which leads to the result that many fairy tales start to become the adult classics, instead of approaching to children, and bring about the complexion of'the fictionization of fairy tales'and'the fairy-talization of fictions', which, at some extant, has altered the hopeful perspectives of groups of children, thereby promotes the progress of the history of literature as a whole.