The Use of Rewards and Miracles as Influential Devices in a Collection of the Twenty-four Filial Tales, and the Sustenance of an Unequal Social Structure
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not our literary tales for children in Taiwan use rewards and miracles as devices to influence our children in becoming a certain type of person, that is, a filial one. The National Taichung Library was the source of the selected sample, since it is an influential library for a great number of people who live in and around the city of Taichung. The selected subject was Tzus (n.d.) The Twenty-four Filial Tales. It was found that the collection uses reward and miracle devices as a means to guide the readers to become filial persons. This study implicates that it is important for us to know that literary tales for children in Taiwan, along with their illustrations, can use certain literary devices to sustain an unequal social structure.
rewards miracles childrens literature
Yi-Chun Lin
英語學系國立台中教育大學
国际会议
2009 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching(2009应用语言学暨语言教学国际研讨会)
台湾
英文
155-162
2009-04-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）