The spatial images in Chinese classical literature

• Main Authors: Young Din San, 楊定山
• Other Authors: 孫春望
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99426908352360524304

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 設計研究所 === 92 === We live in the world full of varied images. With the dominant power, the media have transferred this world into images. Besides,the media change these images into a multi-worlk by playing magic of mirror. These images are deprived of their essences which make themselves specific, meaningful and attractive. Like a dream, these images are so changeable and easy to vanish. All we can feel is the feelings of unfamiliarity and agitation. ( Italo Calvino，1996） The research subject is to discuss the spatial images in Chinese classical literature. Through further discussion, It was intended to recover the essences, which are mentioned above and make images specific and meaningful. To make the discovery of this research more specific, the experimenter analyzed the literature works by using the technique in film shots. Here are the procedures: 1. To collect the relative books about Chinese Literature like The Book of Songs, the pre-Tang poetry, the post-Tang poetry, classical poetry etc. . 2. To pick out the literature works which are relative to expression of space. 3. To analyze these images specifically upon the different techniques of film shots. The methods of operating shots are divided into two categories. One is the position and condition of operating video camera. The other is film editing. As to the position and condition of operating video camera, they are generally indicated as the angle of photograph, the height of photograph and the operation of video camera. The film editing is about cutting films. The technique in film shot guides readers to follow the images which are built in literature works. Therefore, readers can specifically comprehend the texts of literature works and the description of space in particular. For instance, according to the book El artificio del verso/This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges, the writer made an annotation about a poetry Inclusiveness by Rossetti: “what is the man thinking when he is staring at a little boy who feels into deep sleep ? Then what is the little boy thinking when he is staring at his father’s cold face? Perhaps he recalls his mother’s eyes when his mother gave him a kiss. When his father was pursuing his mother, how soft is his mother’s kiss? ” At the first line of the poetry, “what is the man thinking when he is staring at a little boy who feels into deep sleep? We can know that the father faces down to stare at his boy. As to the second line, we can feel that the boy faced down to stared at his father who is dead through the image-switch skills that are applied in good movies that we have ever seen. （Jorge Luis Borges，2001）