Research into poetry, essays and other genres picked up, and works of literary criticism such as Taiwan's Major Schools of Fiction: A Preliminary Study, mono graphs like "Liu Sha Ho--On Poetry Across the Taiwan Strait" and comprehensive overviews like A History of Taiwan Literature appeared.
詩歌、散文等各項文藝類的研究亦逐漸熱絡。文學批評的專著如「台灣主要小說流派初探」，專題論述如「流沙河﹘﹘隔海說詩」，乃至於如「台灣文學史」等綜觀專著皆已編寫完畢。