It is a research about The Four Great novels in late Ching Dynasty, to discuss the intentions of the writers, the background of the era, structure and narrative, characters, readers and the thought of the novels. The intentions of the writers were strong and everyone of them had his own specialty. There were so many wars in late Ching Dynasty, the politics was disorder and the culture was continued to change from the old one to the new one. The disorder situation effected the novels. Transporting foreign novels to China and printing the novels on newspapers made the Four Great novels got change. It changed the structure and narrative of the novels. The readers were very important to the novels and the relations among the readers,writers and works got change because of printing the novels on newspapers. The intention of the writers were strong that it made the novels more thoughtful and showed them by the way of blaming and exposing the crimes. This is not only a research about the forms but also the thought of the novels that it tries to offer a more complete observation of the Four Great novels.

清末四大詞人之一況周頤，畢生致力於詞學，其所著的《蕙風詞話》名極一時，彊村先生推為絕作。然而在況氏六十八年的生命旅程中，有五十多年是用於填詞上，晚年才轉而埋首撰寫《蕙風詞話》，其詞論所以見解通達，匠心獨運，根本在於他是位填詞老手，因此除了知名的詞話外，更應投入研究其生平歷史與詞作的藝術及成就。本論文即以其生平和所有詞作為探討主題，以《第一生修梅花館詞》的九個集子，加上存於自定稿《蕙風詞》中的民國十一年後的近作十三首為研究範圍，求作一個全面性的析論。本論文之研究主要採三個步驟進行，首先是「外緣探討」，於第二章就況周頤所處的時代，包括政治局勢、學術風尚和有清一代詞學流變概況的掌握。其次是「內緣研究」，首先為了知人論世，對生卒年的考述、生平大要、性行學養、交游及著作幾方面先做一番介紹，而為第三章。其次，於第四章研究周頤詞作，分從思想內容的六大類﹙傷春戀情、悼亡、友情酬唱、感逝傷離、愛國憂時、遺老之作﹚及反映的心理意識作一番分析評論。再者，於第五章扼要剖述《蕙風詞話》中關於詞的藝術技巧理論，借而分析其詞作的創作技巧，並映證是否與其理論一致。於第六章分從溫婉、沉鬱、妍麗三方面，探討其詞作多重的風格面貌。最後結論則就上述的藝術成就，以及歷來詞人的評價，對後代詞學的影響，為況周頤做一綜合性的評價，給予應有的詞學地位。