A Study of Wu-Chang Hsieh’s Nursery Rhymes

• Main Authors: SU,CHIEN-RONG, 蘇建榮
• Other Authors: Chen,Chun-jung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6jncsb

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 語文與創作學系語文教學碩士班 === 97 === Wu-Chang Hsieh is a senior and professional writer of children’s literature. He is proficient in writing, re-writing, and editing, and has received much acclaim for his works. Among the writers of nursery rhymes in Taiwan, Hsieh is the most prolific one. He is the first nursery rhyme writer to win the National Literature and Art Achievement Award with his work “Let’s Sing Bo Po Mo”. Focusing on his abundant nursery rhymes, this study aimed to probe into his literature experience, creative ideas, and further explore the content and approaches adopted to present his nursery rhymes. Through organization, analysis, and induction, the writing styles and features of Hsieh’s works were described. This paper consisted of five chapters. An outline of each chapter is presented as follows: The first chapter “Introduction” described the motivation, objectives, range, method, constraint and provided a review of literatures to outline the framework and procedure of this research. The second chapter “Wu-Chang Hsieh and Nursery Rhymes” began with an exploration of Hsieh’s literary experience and writing traces. Later, perspectives embedded in his nursery rhymes, including “Ten Commandments” and “Integrating Nursery Rhymes and Children’s Poems”, were organized to introduce Hsieh’s creative and edited works of nursery rhymes. The third chapter “The Contents of Wu-Chang Hsieh’s Nursery Rhymes”: Based on related theories and reader’s feedbacks, an analysis of the genres, themes, and materials of Hsieh’s works was presented. The fourth chapter “Hsieh’s Writing Approaches”: Based on related theories and reactions of the researcher, approaches adopted by Hsieh to write nursery rhymes, including rhetoric, syntax, rhyming, and structure, were induced and analyzed. The fifth chapter “Conclusion”: Features, values, and contribution of Hsieh’s nursery rhymes to the development of Taiwanese nursery rhymes were concluded. Constraints of this research were also proposed as a reference for future researchers.