張瀛太作品中之神話思維： 以「神話─原型批評」為研究框架

This thesis focuses on Chang-Ying-Tai’s works from the early 1990s to the present. Chang’s novels were known and admired with fantastic “exotic features” and “love adventures” , especially the myth, romance, marvels and magic elements used in her writings. Those aesthetics definitely helped Chang to win a lot of prizes in a variety of writing competitions held by newspapers. Aside from listed renowned features, I also find a kind of mythical thinking in Chang’s series of novels. I suggest the mythical thinking departures from her second book “Tibet Lover” and takes place continually in her following works. And the observation come out an idea to have a further study on her novels based on the Archetypal Criticism Theory. First of all, I proceed to analyze Chang’s two short stories and one prose which won top prizes in the writing competitions held in 1999 and 2000. I go through all the opinions given by adjusters to consolidate the comments to review how could her stories gain the majority of criticizers’ appreciative evaluations and why could her writings get great appraisal of literature. Secondly, I define the “Unconfined Spring Light ”as a modern myth of love and put the book under Northrop Frye’s archetypal criticism theory, as well as Joseph Campbell’s hero’s adventure theory to review Chang’s “departure- pursuit-return” itinerary happened repeatedly in her stories. Hereinafter, I put “The Bear Is Whispering To Me” under Claude Levi-Strauss's theory to discuss how conflicts and misunderstandings resulted in a broken relationship between human beings and nature, as well as how the boy could re-approach the Spirits thorough mysterious rituals and worships. Finally, I analyze the topics of rebirth, reincarnation and transformation in the “An Ancient Musician” based on Jung’s Archetype Theory. Completed as the first academic essay on Chang’s novels, I attempt to analyze from an interdisciplinary perspective among mythology, anthropology and psychology. I assume the mythical thinking is the core aesthetics throughout her stories and discuss based on Archetypal Criticism Theory to explore Chang’s spiritual world, as well the interior of primitive soul.