| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 語文學系碩士班 === 97 === The Study of Xie Wu Zhang’s Children’s Prose
[Abstract]
Since the publication of the poetry- “spring” in the spring of 1975, Xie Wu Zhang has dedicated himself into children’s literature for more than three decades, and has become one of the most well-known and distinguished poets in Taiwan. During the early development period of the Taiwanese children’s literature, he has been endeavoring to the composition of children’s prose. With his keen observation and abundant creativity, he incorporates elements of his daily life, to compose a number of childlike, playful and implicative proses.
The study applies the combination of the literature analysis method, as well as the text analysis method, to analyze 133 pieces of Xie’s children’s prose between 1985 and 2006, with an aim at distinguishing his research subject, text theme, writing style, and text organization. The findings of the study are as follows:
1. Xie’s research topics are extensive. He adopts his childhood memories of farm village and his experience in the current city daily life as the major topics of his work. For topics on childhood, Xie not only describes his childhood fantasy life, but also broadens and extends the matter theme to portraying people, things, and objects in his home town. Another major topic that Xie is fond of is related with his daily life experience in the city. He indeed encompasses his spiritual and intellectual perception of the city life into his composition. From these subject matters, it is evident that Xie has apparently expanded the subject scope of his children’s prose, to include objects, people, and daily life experience; all of them are the significant topics of Xie’s emotional composition.
2. Xie’s research themes are suburban and inspirational. Although Xie’s children’s prose covers a wide range of topics, his creative writing themes always illustrate his memories of farm village, school, community, relative, and childhood; all of them are quite suburban. In addition, some of his other primary work themes, such as his daily life experience, his social criticism, and his appreciation of the natural world, are also very inspirational.
3. Xie’s writing style is unique. The writing style of Xie’s children’s prose matches exactly with his personality – naive and connotative. The first reflects his strong language capability in the manipulation of the Taiwanese dialect, to make his text simple and concise, while the latter proves his excellent writing and rhetorical skills, to make his text vivid, lively, and artistic.
4. Xie’s text organization is clear and understandable. Among his children’s prose, Xie always employs certain simple and fluent text organization methods, such as “sequencing, ” “lining,” and “summarizing,” to enable those simple-minded and straightforward children clearly understand and grasp the implications of his work.
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