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A Study on Cheng Ching-wen's Novel

Cheng Ching-wen has a wide variety of interests in writing, including novel, short story, fairy tale, literature, political review, miscellaneous writing and translation of Western literary works. Cheng has been engaged in writing for fifty years and accomplished a tremendous amount of quality work. This thesis would focus on three of Cheng¡¦s novels. Structure of the thesis would be the first part which has been finalized after several modifications.
Chapter One Explain the reason why to choose Cheng¡¦s novels as the topic of this thesis.
Chapter Two Study the writer¡¦s life and creation background. Analyze how his special growing background, learning process, friends and reading preference impact on his writing. Also, discuss the relationship between his inspirations and his works from the three geographic environments where he grew up.
Chapter Three Discuss the origin of Cheng¡¦s creation ideas. Analyze Cheng¡¦s creation style and the formation of his tragic philosophy of life from the perspectives of Western literary works and the philosophy of life.
Chapter Four Explore how Cheng creates the image of a novel character through artistic portrayal of characters and analyze Cheng¡¦s language style from three perspectives.
Chapter Five Discuss Cheng¡¦s novels from four major topics: suffering common people, the greatness of mother¡¦s love, life of the peasantry in Taiwan and the forbidden political issues. Based on these topics, explore the ideas that Cheng embodies in these three novels.
Chapter Six Conclusion: Summarize Cheng¡¦s creations and writing style.
Keywords: Cheng Ching-wen, Novel, Topic, Tragedy,A Study on Cheng Ching-wen¡¦s Novel

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0728109-145211
Date28 July 2009
CreatorsLing, Tsai
ContributorsYu Chao-wen, Li Jin-yi, Chai Jen-nien
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728109-145211
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