| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 漢學應用研究所 === 103 === Liaozhai Zhiyi is a classical Chinese novel that attracts the interest of readers because the narrative approach creates varieties of real space for the integration of individual aspirations and sustenance as well as the construction of this space through images. Some chapters in this novel use the temple, a study room, and a tomb as space scenes of the story. These scenes pertain to the background story and are a combination of a particular event. This study aims to discuss and explain how "Liaozhai Zhiyi" generates meaningful change through spatial arrangement.
In this study, we first analyze the context and semantics of the novel to explore the real space writing features and discuss the relationship between the characters and the plot. Next, we discuss the foregoing three scenarios for narrative and space to bring results and change. Finally, this study focuses on the following main ideas. The first main idea has to do with changes in the atmosphere of the scene relating to the temple, students, fox spirit, and ghost interactions dilute the religious mystery and strengthens the bizarre nature of the space; and these changes open up the conversion of virtual space to real space along with the subconscious desire of the student to meet life. The next main idea has to do with the study room implies a meaning of space that leads power through knowledge and symbolizes the loneliness of the student. In other words, it is a lonely soul space with the image of the student seeing the ghostly woman in the study room who is writing a love story to convey the ghost’s lonely life despite the student expecting a successful image and depicts the Confucian idea of an ethical woman. The final main idea has to do with the tomb as a home for the soul after death, as a symbol of death, and a microcosm of the underworld of space as a multi-dimensional space for interacting with ghosts. This space is also a channel for converting real space to virtual space. This novel is the story of resurrection throughout the course of life to have an opportunity to perfect the values of life and to show the positive meaning of life.
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