摘 要
唯美主义是出现于19世纪欧洲的资产阶级文艺思潮。唯美主义者主张“为艺术而艺术”，坚信艺术高于生活，具有永恒的力量。在英国，王尔德是唯美主义运动的代表人物，是唯美主义创作的实践者。王尔德的童话作品充满了奇妙的想象，结构精致，语言华美，富有浓郁的诗意，本文将把他的童话作品做为重点研究的对象，通过文本分析的方法，归纳作品的特点，并进一步探究其中所折射出的唯美主义艺术观。
关键词：王尔德；唯美主义；童话
ABSTRACT
The aestheticism is a trend of bourgeois literary thoughts which appeared in the nineteenth century in Europe. People who believed in aestheticism advocated the belief "Art for art's sake", they believed that the Art transcended life, and had its eternity. In England, the representative of aestheticism is Oscar Wilde, who is the also practitioner of aesthetic writing. Wilde's fairy tales are full of fantastic imaginations, fine composition, florid words and have a kind of poetic flavour. Through analyzing Wild’s fairy tales, this thesis probes both the features of his tales and the aesthetic ideas these tales reflect.
Keywords：Wilde; aestheticism; fairy tale
Contents
1. Introduction 1
1.1 Wilde and His Works 1
1.2 Wilde's Aesthetic Intention 1
1.2.1 The Germ of Wilde's Aesthetic Intention 2
1.2.2 The Value of Wilde's Aesthetic Intention 3
1.2.3 Wilde's representive works of aestheticism and Its Background 3
2. The Aestheticism in Wilde's Fairy Tales 5
2.1 The Beauty of Image 5
2.1.1 The Beauty of Image in The Nightingale and the Rose 5
2.1.2 The Beauty of Image in The Happy Prince 6
2.1.3 The Beauty of Image in The Fisherman and his Soul 7
2.2 The Beauty of Spirit 7
2.2.1The Beauty of Spirit in the The Nightingale and the Rose 8
2.2.2 The Beauty of Spirit in The Happy Prince 8
2.2.3 The Beauty of Spirit in The Fisherman and his Soul 10
2.3 The Beauty of the Tragic Ending 11
2.3.1 The Beauty of the Tragic Ending in The Nightingale and the Rose 11
2.3.2 The Beauty of the Tragic Ending in The Happy Prince 12
3. The Main Feature of Wilde's Tales: The Aesthetic Idea 14
3.1 Wilde's tales: No Magic in the Real World 14
3.2 Wilde's tales: Perfect Ending 14
4. Conclusion 15
Acknowledgements 16
References 17
