The famous article, Son of Human Being, authored by Lu Chiou shows the history of the author¡¦s life, and explores the deep meaning of life and its significance. This thesis is to investigate the writing style and meaning of Son of Human Being, rather then the author himself. The focus of this thesis is on the meaning of the article, which is accompanied with the writing style.
The research approach adopted in this thesis is based on the theory of reader-response, as Wolfgang Iser¡¦s theory, how to explain the meaning of an article to reader. According to such theory, the interaction between an article and its readers is the critical issue to judge the affirmation of the article¡¦s meaning. Therefore, the inconclusive and blank parts of the article need to be reified by reader himself/herself in order to make the consistence throughout the whole story in the article.
Regarding the writing style, this thesis analyzed the structure of Son of Human Being. The purpose is to investigate the meaning embedded within this article, which is also the motivation to performance this thesis. The embedded meaning consists of surface meaning and significant meaning, where the former is explicit in the content of the article, and the later is implicit. The significant meaning can be obtained by the moral-philosophical, psychological, mythological, archetypal, folklore, or archetypal pattern approaches to analyzing the detailed content of the article.
In this thesis, the structure of Son of Human Being is organized as one chapter. The four phases of life described in the article are Life Regret, Wiseness Initialization, Mind Growth, and Eternity, each of which is presented by an individual chapter. Finally, the last chapter draws the conclusion of this thesis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0725103-010201 |
| Date | 25 July 2003 |
| Creators | Chang, Shiow-Jane |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0725103-010201 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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