| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 98 === This study aimed to investigate the issues of rural-urban dialectics and imbroglio of love and morality, and the artistic approach of the intermingling of ridicule and absurdity in Wang Chen-Ho’s novels and scripts.
In addition to being a writer of Hualien local writing, he also was good at depicting Taipei’s urban culture. His title as a rural writer should not just limit to Hualien or countryside; it also included the things and people on this land. He is more a local writer reflecting on the national consciousness and ethnic identity than just a pure “writer of regionalism”. The characters in his works moved between rural and urban areas, and this revealed the compromise and acceptance to the modernization. He not only overthrew the “sadness that urban people bully rustic” in the traditional rural literature but also reversed the thinking of “rural-urban opposition”, showing the possibility of rural-urban intercommunication.
Secondly, his works conveyed the loosening of the traditional morality, the change of ethical order, the shift of the power between male and female and between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the disintegration of the modern family structure, and the possibility of nonmarital cohabitation under some circumstances. Besides, he also expressed the recognition that females’ pursuit of their dominance on destiny; moreover, he held the open attitude of tolerance and respect and had the viewpoint transcending the traditional patriarchal view --“chastity”. Facing the special situations difficult to be resolved by the traditional ethics and the society of great disintegration.
This study attempted to analyze the writer’s artistic approach: he took the stand of pity and mock, criticism and irony, and humorous self-parody to write, utilized special writing styles such as the intervention of the narrator, and the shift of narrative view, visual symbol, the simulation of the humor of language, the contrast of situation, the uglification of characters, and disharmony; he used the comedic approach to present the sadness in life and the aesthetic experience of the intermingling of ridicule and absurdity.
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