| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 101 === Picture books, with the traits of both text and images, the sum of which being the overall performance of the works, have to be experienced visually and linguistically as a whole. In Taiwan, the researches on the styles of picture books have more often than not emphasized how the images are presented, very few of which have at the same time also taken into account how the texts are presented, and such rare discourses comprise only a small portion of the research paper. This thesis has studied three versions of the picture book Matouqin (in Mandarin Chinese, meaning “horse head guitar,” a Mongolian string instrument), analyzing the differences of their texts, images and ironic relationships, so as to understand the overall performance of the style of each version of the piece of work.
This paper is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is the introduction, including the motive and purpose, research questions, scope and limitations, as well literature review of this inquiry. The second chapter titled “Comparing Text Presentation of Picture Books,” compares section by section the text plots, characterization of roles, and rhetoric skills, in order to show how text influences the whole story. The third chapter, “Analyzing Image Presentation of Picture Books,” analyzes each artist’s meaning of pictorial presentation through respectively lines, patterns, colors, media, perspectives, locations, compositions, and other meaningful signifiers. “Irony in Text-image Relationships,” the third chapter, adopting Perry Nodelman’s ideas, analyzes the time-moving of stories and the time-freezing of images, the text-image ironic relationship caused by the relative subjectivity of texts and the relative objectivity of images, with illustrations as examples; in addition, this chapter also compares the connections among the amount of pictures, plot and characterization, hopefully to have the hang the of narrative rhythm of each different version. The fifth chapter is the conclusion, which proposes that there are connections among the writer’s characterization of the roles, rhetoric, and story genres, and the connections have influenced the using of words. Text-image ironic relationship appears when the perspectives and the points of view of the text and the images differ, when the mental image created from the text differs from the depiction of the illustration, when the image tells more than the text, and when the text and the image have different foci.
|
|---|
