| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 100 === A Study on Modern Allegory Picture Book from the Perspective of Life Ethnics
Wang Lan-Fei
Graduate Institute of Children's Literature, National Taitung University
Abstract
Allegory is a kind of advisory or ironic short story which visually elaborates an inspiring truth and meaning with simple words in an implicit and profound way. Allegory picture book is to add pictures to assist in telling stories together with characters so as to convey more information and make implied meanings thought-provoking.
Being an artistic pattern close to children life experience, the issues concerned in allegory picture book render its inner meaning more thinking and social attributes. Moreover, the life wisdoms such as life nature, life meaning and life attitude conveyed enlarge its depth and width. The inspiration of wisdom starts from recognizing oneself. From the perspective of children, allegory picture book guides readers to explore and ponder the spiritual connotation in three aspects, i.e. man and ego, individual and population and man and ideal value. The paper studies from the angle of life ethnics to illustrates the process of life value of allegory picture book.
The thesis is divided into six chapters. The first chapter introduces the background, motives, questions, objectives, methods and procedures of the research, as well as the research scope and limitations. The second chapter explores the nature of allegory, , relationship between picture and allegory as well as the allegory exploration, and illustrates the relationship between allegory picture book and life ethnics. The following three chapters analyze the texts and explore the ethnics’ connotation from three aspects of man and ego, individual and population and man and ideal value. The final chapter concludes the modern meaning of allegory picture book.
The study explores the texts from the perspective of life ethnics, hoping to obtain profound inspiration and promotion by thinking over the important things in the life so as to have a deep cognition of life. Furthermore, the open feature of allegory picture book provides life ethnics diversified thoughts which is good for children in training the depth and width of thoughts .
Key words: allegory, picture, life ethnics, ego, population, ideal value
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