Why does the person set sail?──What does the "navigation" mean to the person?Why does the person set sail?-- What does the "navigation" mean to the person? / 為什麼出航?——航海文學中「航海」行為之於人的意義為什麼出航?

碩士 / 國立臺東大學 / 兒童文學研究所 / 95 / This study starts from the relationship between the people and the sea and tries to know why the characters in maritime literature want to take an adventure and what they would experience in the journey. Then, the study takes the aspect of the reader on the other hand. When readers begin to read the story, they can be seen as they really start off the journey. What readers attempt to get from the story? When the story ends, how can they give the meaning to the story individually and collectively.

The researcher divides the mental parts of set sailing into two categories: one is getting out to outer world, and the other is getting to one’s inner mind. The former means that the adventure is set out to find something, the real treasure or the imaginary one, in much bigger and outer world. The latter takes the journey as a course of getting alone. When one’s sailing on the sea, he limits himself to one inescapable ship and to a smaller space in order to get a sense of security and to dominate everything. At the end, with the coming of the post-navigation age, after the the navigation, navigation itself and the sea have constructed what abstract image to the people.

By means of the sailing adventure, the characters and the readers are all finding the concrete and the abstract treasure for themselves. And they maybe draw different conclusions on the question: Why does the person set sail?

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/094NTTTC638040
CreatorsWei, Guan, 關崴
ContributorsTzu-Chang, Chang, 張子樟
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format112

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