本文是一篇英语文学论文，本论文聚焦《明智的孩子》中的空间，以空间理论为理论视角，阐释这部作品的空间特征以及空间对人物塑造和主题揭示的意义。
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Angela Carter and Wise Children
Angela Carter is one of the most famous female writers in contemporary English literature. Her uniqueness has attracted extensive attention from scholars at home and abroad. She is not only a novelist, but also a journalist, playwright, critic and essayist. Angela Carter was born in 1940 and died in 1992. Even though she died young, she left many excellent literary works. She wrote nine novels in her lifetime. They include Shadow Dance, The Magic Toyshop, Several Perceptions, Heroes and Villains, Love, The Infernal Desire Machines Of Dr. Hoffman, The Passion Of New Eve, Nights At The Circus and Wise Children. Her four collections of short stories are Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus and American Ghosts Old World Wonders. She has also written three books on literary criticism, including The Sadeian Women: An Exercise In Cultural History, Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings and Wayward Girls And Wicked Women: An Anthology Of Subversive Stories. There are also numerous essays, news reports, and poetry written by her.
Angela Carter has written various literary works and won various awards. Several Perceptions won the Somerest Maugham Award. The Magic Toyshop won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Nights at the circus won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Bloody Chamber won the Cheltenham Literary Festival Prize. Wise Children is the last novel written by Angela Carter, and is considered to be an important embodiment of her feminist views. In Wise Children, Carter described a new feminist culture and concept, in which the living condition of individual women became the main concern. This novel tells the story of the legendary lives of Dora Chance and Nora Chance.
1.2 Literature Review
Angela Carter is one of the most prominent female writers in the British literary world. During her writing career, she has written 9 novels, 4 short story collections, 3 literary criticism monographs and a large number of plays, essays and poems. Wise Children is carter’s last novel. Carter’s unique writing style has attracted the attention and research of scholars at home and abroad.
1.2.1 Foreign Research
A search of foreign academic websites reveals that some foreign scholars have published monographs on Angela Carter. In her monograph Angela Carter, Linden Peach (1998) discusses the development of criticism in Carter’s novels and works. Heidi Yeandle’s (2017) monograph Angela Carter and Western Philosophy discusses the presentation of Western philosophy in her work. Marie Mulvey Roberts (2019) re-assess Carter’s impact and importance for the twenty-first century and points out she has diversity of her interests and versatility across different fields. Besides, Carter’s adaptation of the fairy tales is a focus of some scholars. Gray Farnell (2014) indicates that The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories is an exemplary reworking of the Gothic, and it is one of Carter’s fictions of the death drive. The study of the Wise Children in foreign literature mainly focuses on the following several aspects.
Chapter 2 Space Theory
2.1 The Development of Space Theory
Time and space are two important parts of literary narration. In the past, scholars always focused on time, and space was always ignored. Western literary narrative art can be traced back to Aristotle. He believes that the beginning, development, climax and ending are the four stages of a complete narrative plot. Aristotle believes that tragedy is “the imitation of a serious, complete and certain length of action”. His narration reflects the development order of linear narration.
However, with the development and evolution of the era, the spatiality of literary texts has attracted more and more attention, and scholars have re-assess the significance of space. People’s understanding of space is not achieved overnight. It h
