Inheritance And Reconstruction Of Angela Carter’s Burning Your Boats

Angela Carter is concerned about the feminist demands,carnival scenes and strange or magnificent imagination in the Western world.In recent years,with the translation and publication of her works,domestic researchers have gradually began to know this female writer.This article aims to reveal the "influence" of predecessors in the creation of Carter’s short stories Burning Your Boats and how she combines these "influence" with modern society and popular literature to reconstruct literature ancient element.Through her works to show fairy tales,legends of this type of folk literature how to evolve in a writer’s literary creation,not only retaining the core of the story but also linking with the era and society of the author,finally the story of the old to be creative.Regarding Carter’s literary inheritance of predecessors,after combing the context of literary inheritance as a whole,this article analyzes the two parts of his country’s literature and other national literature.Carter’s inheritance of the country’s literature is mainly reflected in the plays of Shakespeare,romantic literature,and Wilde’s esthetics.Shakespeare’s influence on Carter was mainly reflected in his understanding of theatrical works and theatrical stage.They saw the essence of drama and contacted it with life.In addition,Carter also reshaped the image of the elves of the natural world in Shakespeare.The praise of the forest and a large number of surreal or wild images of poetry,the dark and fanatical narrative works of Gothic novel together form the basic framework of Carter’s creation.Carter inherited Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic ideas and serious thoughts in Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales.Carter’s literary inheritance for other peoples,this article focuses on three aspects of the discussion: shows Carter’s translation and reference of Charles Perot’s works and the impact of Grimm’s fairy tales on Carter’s works,and defines the meaning of fairy tales,combing its General development context;Carter takes Ellen Poe and Baudelaire as the hero of the story,and use their works in her text to show their literary ideas.In addition,the style of depiction of death,love,and desire in Japanese literature also affects Carter,and her acceptance of the tale and the aesthetic style of Japanese literature is also reflected in the novel.The reconstruction of this article is discussed from the views of imagery,theme,and cultural perspective.It refers to the integration of personal style and characteristics of the times after the acceptance and integration of predecessors’ "influence",and both the "puppet" and "beasts" this kind of unique image and under the background of globalization,the collective,the conflict between individuals,civilization and identification.It also have serious themes that she gave to fairy tales about human social desire,salvation,and alienation of the spiritual world.In a word,Burning Your boats,as a representative work of carter,embodies the inheritance and development of her literary creation,and is essentially a reversion and continuation of the literary tradition.