Title

Gaining Insight into the Discourse of Knowledge: Definition of and Discourse on Taiwan's Contemporary “Nature Writing"

Author

I-ling Hsiao

Genre

Article  

Pages

491-533

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Language

Chinese

Key words

nature writing, natural writing, modernity, ecological literature, metaphor

Abstract

   In the wake of the rise of a new writing pattern in literary circles in Taiwan, “nature writing" has earned attention from numerous researchers as such writing further sets as a starting point for definition and discourse based on its “novelty." The central point of this paper will be to ask: “How will the contemporary academic circle define and give discourse on the 'novelty' of nature writing?" On the basis of such a meta-stance, this essay will suggest that the existing definition and discourse of “nature writing" function as one clue about the “meaning context" for further thinking. With regard to the concern over the “novelty" of “nature writing," this paper will focus on the research into “meaning and epochal themes entertained by nature writing." Since that the issues will inspire our concern toward the corresponding approaches, issues of meaning the corresponding approach signify will be the highlighted characteristic in this essay.