The Theme and People Characterization Research on Chien Chen’s Prose

• Main Authors: Yu-ying Huang, 黃昱穎
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11252926454815399802

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 國語文學系碩士班 === 99 === Since Chien Chen published her first work in 1985, she constantly strived to change newly and expanded her writing horizons during her twenty-year career. Her creations focus from individuals to groups and indicate the diversity for variety and newness. Chien’s creation path is well-designed and she devoted herself to each work. Though it’s seldom to find out the discussion about features depicting in the research of prose, features molding is indispensable. This thesis focuses on the writer-Chien Chen and discusses the feature and value of Chien’s prose. Chapter 1: “Introduction”. Briefly introduces the motivation behind the study, document reviewing, method and approach of research, framework of the thesis. Chapter 2: “Brief record of Chien Chen’s life experience and writing background” Chien’s writing themes and styles are influenced by her environment and growing experience. This chapter depicts Chien’s three growth stages as follows: “Childhood – hometown life”, “School life-she left her native place with inspiration,” “Grow-up stage- career development”. Then discusses Chien’s growth stories, belief and style of her writing. Chapter 3: “The main thinking and the inside meanings of Chien’s prose.” Chien Chen continues to challenge herself to new subjects and topics. This chapter aims to compile the themes through her works which follows the discussion on Chien’s life experience and writing belief of the above chapter. In “Hometown feelings” part, she expresses feelings to her hometown. In “Religion realizing” part, we analyze Chien’s religion thinking. In “City depicting” part, we discuss about Chien’s scope and thought about city life. In “Female duty” part, we probe Chien’s points of view about female duty. In “Feminism” part, we analyze how Chien Chen presents feminism in her works. Chapter 4: “Expressive skills on features of Chien’s prose” This chapter are divided into five parts, which analyzes the various techniques of portraying features by Chien Chen. She depicts“People characterization”-to display features’ characters;“Contrast echniques”- to highlight the differences of features;“Metaphor techniques”–to transform meanings into features.“The linguistic style -with distinct themes, using different style of writing;“Self dialogs and monologs”- to convey features’ thoughts more clearly;“Direct and indirect writing techniques ”-to vivid the features . Chapter 5: “Conclusion”. This chapter concludes the above chapters and compiles the feature and contribution of Chien’s prose.