Theory And Practice of Chang Hsiao-feng’Prose──Centered on Sense of Beauty

• Main Authors: Mei- ya Yang, 楊美雅
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28513676629454292638

碩士 === 雲林科技大學 === 漢學資料整理研究所碩士班 === 98 === Aesthetic tendency and poetic quality embodied in Chang Hsiao-feng’s works have already been well known in literature circle, comment on artistic skills of her prose has made considerable achievement, but as for the discussion on presentation of beauty, factors and skills in her prose, a more comprehensive and detailed discussion from the "content" to "form" has not yet emerged up till the present, so this paper attempts to construct her prose aesthetic from aspects of "sentiment", "character art" and "image" and meanwhile make detailed analysis on her artistic skills: to discuss her sentiment and philosophical thought with both emotional and rational features and both breadth and depth characteristics through the narration by citing examples "susceptible individual", "Confucian feelings", "Christian love" and "Taoism Philosophical thought"; to explore her skills in maneuvering characters, structure, tones and rhythms by means of "elegant and flexible language", "undulating and harmonious melody" and "structure with changing forms"; in the light of previous interpretations, this paper tries to make an appropriate definition of "image", to explore the corresponding cases of "meaning" and "image" in her prose, to summarize the main types of images and explore her methods in shaping images so as to more fully explain components and techniques of Chang Hsiao-feng’s prose aesthetic from the sentiment, language to the image. In addition, as for magnificent and vivid colors in Chang Hsiao-feng’s prose, "association and imagination" is the critical ability connecting the objective theme and writing in her prose. Through the correspondence between her prose conception, themes and creative thinking theory, we can find the practice method that echoes to theory, so it is evident to see the effectiveness and feasibility of applying creative thinking theory into literature. Moreover, we also summarize Chang Hsiao-feng’s outlook on prose from her works and relevant statements in her interviews, and by comparing the contents of her theory and practice, we confirm the practice effects and feasibility of her prose (literary) theory. Chang Hsiao-feng takes inheriting Chinese literature as his life-long vocation, but almost all existing research achievements take modern literary theory as the basis for comment, so this paper attempts to appreciate and comment her prose art from a new angle ── traditional Chinese literature and poetry theory, and explore and explain the thread of thoughts of her inheriting Chinese traditional literature.