| dc.description.abstract | The object of the thesis is to study the Annual Selection of Prose (ASOP) issued by Chiu Ko Publishing Co., Ltd. First of all, I analyze the factors of its publishing development from the viewpoint of commercial mechanism. In the early days of 1980s, the market of publication was pretty prosperous so that there were three publishers, Chiu Ko, Avanguard and Sitakgroup, attending one after another the competitive field of ASOP to contend for the cultural hegemony. With the interactive influence of the ideal of the publisher, the aesthetic opinion of the chief editor, the standard of selection of articles, the ideology of the publisher and the acceptance level of market on the field, only ASOP issued by Chiu Ko outshined among others and remained steady in the market of the annual selection.
Then, I discuss the operation of the authority in ASOP from the viewpoint of the role played by the chief editor. The aesthetic opinion of the chief editor dominates the configuration of ASOP and then indirectly impacts on the formation of the literary paradigms and principles. Since 1999, Chiu Ko has made changes in the mockup of ASOP. I objectively present the reasons of such a transformation and the configuration of ASOP after changing its mockup by means of the interview in person and the contrast of the present and the past. Next, I ponder on the variety of literary awards in order to discuss the power structure of ASOP versus literary awards and the impact of literary awards on the development of prose. After establishment of the annual prose award in 1995, Chiu Ko and its chief editor consolidated their status of power in literary circles.
After that, I sort six items of popular subject matters (family love prose, nature writing, female prose, diet prose, tour prose, medicine prose) out of twenty-six ASOP, show a central list of the articles of those items, and discuss their writing stages and traits.
Finally, by virtue of the diachronic observation through twenty-six years, I induce the changes of the generations of writers, the variations of gender percentage of writers and the transformations of styles, subject matters, techniques and contents in prose, and then affirm the significance of ASOP in literary history. | en_US |