Research on Yen Kun-yang's Knowledgeable Prose

• Main Authors: Chang Yu-Teng, 張育滕
• Other Authors: Xie Kun-hua
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78692474633886992773

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 99 === Research on Yen Kun-yang’s Knowledgeable Prose Chang Yu-teng Abstract Among numerous modern prose writers, Yen Kun-yang is attributed to a scholar writer who is not only capable to produce good works but also well learned of the old as well as the present. His works range from classic poetry to modern proses to novel creation, of which the proses are most knowledgeably and affectionately appealing, closely connected with their background in time. This essay focuses its theme of research on “Yen’s knowledgeable prose”, discussing the literary achievements of contemporary master Yen Kun-yang and analyzing the theme contents and artistic performances of his knowledgeable prose works to have a glimpse of the scenarios of the world of his proses and thus make known his value and contributions in Taiwan’s literature. The essay is divided into five chapters to illustrate the contents of Yen’s creation of knowledgeable proses. The first chapter “Introduction” aims for the essay research’s motivations and purposes, its scope and method and the general situations of former research. The second chapter is about Yen’s life, his literary development processes and his ideals. By way of initial understanding of Yen’ life can we have a further mastery of his transformational processes in literary development and grasp his creation viewpoints and mission. The third chapter is “the theme contents of the knowledgeable proses.” It is characterized by the qualities of his knowledgable prose genre --- the criticism on power-pursuing, the vivid narration of social disorder and the comment on human degeneration, each of which is discussed and analyzed in detail. The fourth chapter “the artistic performances of knowledgeable prose” disintegrates the artistic beauty of Yen’s knowledgeable prose from the dimension of literary diverse performances and the prose styles. The fifth chapter “conclusion” summarizes analyses and discussions of previous chapters in order to categorize inductively and systematically the traits of Yen’s knowledgable prose in this chapter so that they may be properly assessed and positioned. It also indicates their meaning and characteristic in Taiwan’s modern prose development and the direction of the style for research in the future. Keywords: Yen Kun-yang, knowledgeable prose, artistic performances