本論文主要探討廖鴻基的海洋文學，廖鴻基的海洋文學書寫，集中在人海之間和人魚之間的對立與辯證，尤其是主體心靈在這些二元對立的經驗，他所書寫的不僅是表面的海洋景象，而且深入到接觸海洋所涉及的個人心理層及文化心理層的景象，與社會政治、經濟文化都有關聯。 本文共五章，除緒、結論外，重點共分佈於二、三、四章三部分的重點。本論文的第二章首先切入廖鴻基的生平與創作背景，其意即在考察廖鴻基個人如何在其成長過程形塑海洋的嚮往及深入海洋文化的層次。廖鴻基之投入海洋文學的創作，多拓展海洋文化的各個層次，「海洋與生命的辯證」為題，著重考察影響廖鴻基創作之路的各種因素。進入正題海洋與生命的辯證。從廖鴻基的生平與創作背景來探討還揚對廖鴻基的影響，也嘗試著將廖鴻基的作品定位。 第三章本章討論廖鴻基書寫海上生活的故事，首先建構討海人正面形象，藉由討海人的語言以及討海人的智慧 並說明討海人以自己的專業為榮。另一方面藉由人與魚的對決以及海中生命力的消耗來展現台灣漁業逐漸凋零，帶出廖鴻基會何由魚夫的身分轉為海洋的保育者 。 第四章「離岸航行」。先從廖鴻基在海灘行走與環島航行中，文中呈現的報導文學形態，書寫平面的自然景觀，加上歷史人文，建構出花蓮海岸的整體面容，接著探討他的遠洋報導中描寫到人與海已擠人與陸地的密切關係，以及船員的辛苦與鄉愁，廖鴻基與海洋的關係在此更深刻的探討。 In this thesis, we mainly focus on the ocean literature of Hung-Chi Liao. His ocean literature explores the relations between human and ocean, human and fishes, especially for the experiences of the mind and body between the opposite relationships. Thus, the ocean literature of Hung-Chi Liao not only describes the appearance of ocean but also discusses the level of personal mind and culture psychology influenced by ocean, which related to the culture, society, politics, and economics. There are five chapters in this thesis and the organization is as follows. We mainly focus on the chapter 2, 3, and 4 except for the chapter 1 of introduction and chapter 5 of conclusion. Chapter 2 presents the biography and writing background of Hung-Chi Liao. This chapter describes the influence of ocean in his life and ocean literature level by level. Chapter 3 presents the story of fishermen written by Hung-Chi Liao. This chapter starts by establishing the positive personalities of fishermen and then shows the downgrade of fishery in Taiwan by the vitality diminishing of ocean. Chapter 4 presents the relations between the navigation of the coast of Taiwan and his ocean literature. By his report of ocean navigation, he not only describes the relationships between human and ocean, human and land, but also shows the deeply relations between Hung-Chi Liao and ocean by the hard-working and the homesickness of fishermen.
