Multidimensional reading of snow white in china

Abstract

—To introduce Chinese scholars' reading of the American novel, Snow White, to the outside world, three representative analyses, among others—to which the theoretical vehicles of deconstruction, intertextuality and cognitive narratology are applied—are individually presented in detail. In the progress of their analyses they take the novel's ancient counterpart, the fairy tale (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), as object for deconstruction, benchmark and background respectively. The old story thus remains an indispensable source to decipher the multiple layers of meaning of the postmodern novel.