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Guo-Zhi Shu, an essayist who has long been recognized for his award-winning writing on travel literature. However, his prose writing is not limited to travel, but covers many fields. In this thesis, the author focuses on the three aspects of "travel", "food" and "recreation" in his prose for analysis.
The travel part explores the relationship and difference between the three nouns "walking"/"wandering"/"swaying" that Guo-Zhi Shu often used in his travel essays from childhood to today. Whether the concept of travelling has changed, and analyzing his travel prose from different landscapes.
In terms of diet, combined with diet essays written by Guo-Zhi Shu, it summed up how he commented on diet and the conventions of writing columns, and then summarized Guo-Zhi Shu's diet concept. In addition, combined with the diverse diet seen in his diet essays, we can see the presentation of postmodern and postcolonial in Guo-Zhi Shu's essays.
As for the recreation part, starting from Guo-Zhi Shu's own thinking and childhood background, his own experience of "traveling" everywhere and the cultural cultivation he possessed after seeing all the "arts" in the group. And then explore how entertainment is presented in Guo-Zhi Shu's prose under the combination of the two.
This thesis mainly analyzes Guo-Zhi Shu's prose from three different aspects through text analysis, different aspects of landscape and gaze theory, Taiwan travel theory and postmodern diet theory. Combined with Guo-Zhi Shu's radio broadcast, magazine interviews and records of the interview, a clearer context of his prose is sorted out.
Keywords: Guo-Zhi Shu, prose, travel, food, landscape, recreation
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