英文摘要
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Chiung-Chiung Yuan was presented the Literature Award of United Daily News for A Sky of One's Own in the 1980s, becoming a pioneer among Taiwanese female writers. Yuan later published the Time of Terror in 1998 after retiring for several years. The content of the novel remained fixated on the romantic relationships and aspirations of urban dwellers. However, it provided an interesting twist with elements of grotesquery, whereby the author illustrated the "irregularities" in "routine" by extensively manipulating and distorting the human form and spatiotemporal imagery. The author completely dismantles the fair imagery of women, vividly illustrates the physical violence derived from the love and affection of urban dwellers, and associates illusionary space and time with the anxiety of survival to portray the transition of family and gender relations swallowed by a rapidly expanding city at the turn of the century. Based on "bodily changes, " "illusionary space and time," and "marginal narration," this study aimed to explore how the author adopted a short-story narrative style to seemingly portray the bizarre changes of a city at the turn of the century through the reflection of shattered glass and tear apart the linear narration of the traditional patriarchal culture, thereby allowing a single human to plainly expose the split and disorder of the difficulties they face.
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