The Research of Animal Novels—Japanese writer Muku Hato Zyou

• Main Authors: Wang Gilan-Lian, 王菁蓮
• Other Authors: 許建崑
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68454532355003024476

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 94 === The Research of Animal Novels— Japanese writer Muku Hato Zyou WANG GILAN-LIAN National Taitung University The Graduate Institute of Children’s Literature Abstract In recent years, there’s this worldwide frenzy in publishing animal based movies and literatures; many writers adopted different methods, established different creative works, and enriched the world of literature; Japanese writer muku hato zyou is among one of those writers. This thesis base on six “muku hato zyou animal stories” published by Taiwan Hsiao Lu Publisher and eight “muku hato zyou animal novel complete edition” published by Mainland China 21st Century Publisher, totaling 109 articles, exploring muku hato zyou’s animal literature creations from aspects of animal behavior, ecology, and conflict theory. The thesis was divided into five chapters; the first chapter was preface. The second chapter discussed the literature concept of muku hato zyou and recent development of Japan children’s literature from the life of muku hato zyou, processes of creations, and different formats of works published. The third chapter studied the writing skill from the story line, descriptive technique, and types of animal characters. The forth chapter studied three major themes in the story: glorious family bonding, strong forces of life, and sincere friendship. The fifth chapter concluded the thesis with the following findings: 1.The creation of animal novel had helped breaking stereo typed images, long term contact with animals can enhance people’s understanding toward animal and increase communication between people and animals. 2.The observation of animal behavior provided rooms for people’s self examination. 3.In the domain of children’s literature, muku hato zyou had started a new era in Japanese animal literature, created a warm world of animal literature within the themes of the story line, broken the traditional writing style and format. Keywords: animal story, Japanese children’s literature, descriptive technique, theme of the story line