A Study of Humorous Fairy Tales by Zhou Rui

• Main Authors: Ying-Ting Wang, 王盈婷
• Other Authors: Chun-Jung Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57284163153540616491

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 語文與創作學系碩士班 === 101 === Zhou Rui is a Chinese contemporary fairy tale writer, he has a lot of writings, and is known for its humor. In 2003, his works “Humor Series” made him one of the best-selling writers in Mainland China. Since 2009, part of “Humor Series” such as “Humor Xi-You”, “Humor San-Guo”, “Humor Shui-Hu”, “Humor Hong-Lou”, and “Humor Liao-Zhai” also published in Taiwan continually. It makes Zhou Rui not only the first Chinese writer but also the most productive and the most rapid-publishing one in Taiwan since 1987. The Zhou-Rui-effect in Taiwan is quite unusual to the publishing, so is worthy of research. This study is trying to explore how Zhou Rui presents his humor by analyzing the plots, characterization of roles, and linguistic style in the “Humorous Series”. This paper includes five chapters. Chapter one includes the purpose of this research, literature review, research scope and method. In chapter two, would mainly focus on the anachronistic, surprising, and ridiculous features of the plots designing. Chapter three focuses on the characters in Zhou’s humorous fairy tales. The characterization of roles could be concisely concluded with three different ways as exaggerating, inverting, and originating by the degrees of converting the roles of original classics. Chapter four discusses language performance, conclude with three different features by his using homonym, syntactical variation and pluralistic structures. Finally, chapter five concludes and summarizes the focus of each chapter and presents the features and contributions of Zhou’s writings, review the advantages and disadvantages, to give objective evaluations and suggestions, and future research directions.