英文摘要 |
Taiwan Literature Collective Journals (Taiwan Wenyi Congzhi) and Poetry News(Shibao) were two of the longest-standing magazines published in Chinese during theJapanese Colonial Period. Both magazines aimed to promote writings in Chinese andmaintain the status quo as well as the importance of Sinology; thus they became representativein Taiwan Literature. Travel notes were about writers’ cultural observations andperceptions of sceneries. Through publications in mass media, these literary works werepassed among the intellectuals and serving the purposes of propaganda and discourse.The travel notes published in Taiwan Literature Collective Journals and Poetry Newscovered local and boundary-crossing tours to China and Japan, which were appropriatematerials for the analysis of writers’ travel memories and portrayal of landscapes. Bylooking into these travel notes, we might have a better understanding of the Confuciancommunities’ perceptions on landscapes home and abroad. Furthermore, since thesewriters were educated under Confucian ideology, it would be interesting to know howtheir writings coping with traditional Confucian values in the face of modern culture.Travel notes usually reveal travelers’ experiences of tours, from departure to return. Thispaper therefore utilizes concepts such as memories, landscape, narrative, representation,and discourse to interpret the cultural meanings in the travel notes, and looks into vari ous writing strategies found in the travel notes, such as allusions, inter-text comparisons,pathos upon landscape, and transference changes. This paper covers topics including theimplication of travel notes from the publications by the Confucian communities, selfperceptionand locality perceived during intra-island tours, and culture differences representedfrom abroad to probe into the significance of landscape portrayals in the travelnotes. |