• 만화애니메이션 연구
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• 통권45호
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• pp.345-366
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• 2016

"샬롯의 거미줄"은 주요 등장인물들이 모성성을 바탕으로 한 관계 맺기를 통해 서로를 성장시키면서 새로운 생명으로 이어지도록 돕는 이야기이다. 또한 삶과 죽음의 교차는 우리가 살아가는 세계의 법칙을 직접적이면서도 상징적으로 암시하고 있다. 이러한 작품의 분석을 위해 크리스테바의 기호계, 상징계, 코라의 개념을 차용하였다. 크리스테바는 기호계와 상징계의 변증법적 관계와 언어의 의미화 과정에 있는 주체의 사회적 상황과 관계들에 주목했다. 이에 이 작품에 등장하는 인물들의 특성을 상징적으로 크리스테바의 주요개념들과 연관시켜 이들이 어떻게 성장해 갔는지 분석하였다. 또한 주요 등장인물들의 관계의 바탕에 있는 모성성은 여성주의적인 관점에서 모든 생명에 대한 보호와 배려, 관심 등을 통해 상호 발전할 수 있는 사회적 관계 혹은 인간으로서 갖추어야할 미덕이라는 넓은 범위로 상정하였다. "샬롯의 거미줄"은 이러한 모성성을 바탕으로 하여 각각의 존재들이 가진 기호적 특성과 상징적 특성들이 서로 상호작용하면서 발전적인 변화를 이끌어내고, 풍부한 의미를 만들어내고 있음을 보여준다. 세상은 서로 대립적인 요소로서 배타적으로 구성되어 있는 것처럼 보이지만 그 요소들은 서로 결합되어 있으며, 그러한 요소들의 상호작용을 통해 얼마나 아름답고 조화로운 세계가 만들어지는지를 문학적으로 형상화하고 있다. 또한 주요 등장인물의 특성을 한 인간의 내면에 있는 두 가지 양상으로 간주하여 작품 전체적으로는 인간의 성장과정으로도 이해할 수 있음을 제시하였다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.79-101
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• 2010

In "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)," Derrida notices that he is being watched by his cat. He becomes ashamed of being naked in front of his cat. The sense of shame is a response to being reduced to the level of an animal. He is ashamed of being as naked as an animal. His next move is, therefore, to cover his nakedness from the gaze of his cat. By contrast, he realizes, the animal is not self-conscious of being naked and so does not shield its nudity. In a truer sense, then, the cat is not naked. Humans do not see animals for what they really are but what they project on them. Whereas the gap between man and animal is clearly identified by Derrida's philosophical discourse, the possibility of going beyond the gap can be suggested by fantasy stories in children's literature. Children's literature in Britain arose in the eighteenth century with the revival of traditional fairy tales and growth of literary fairy tales. Romanticism in the early nineteenth century contributed to opening up a new horizon for the concept of the child, in which the child is no longer defined as the object to be tamed and childhood imagination is glorified as a powerful means to reach the higher state, the spiritual origin prior to separation of Man from the 'thing-in-itself.' In The Wind in the Willows, animals talk and behave like humans. The anthropomorphic figuration of animals can be understood as a result of the one-sided projection of anthropocentric perspectives on animals rather than an interaction between humans and animals. Significant contradictions also emerge in this story, however, as traits particular to animals are vividly delineated even as the main didactic theme of good triumphing over evil reflects an anthropocentric projection on animals. An attempt to capture the true characteristics of animals and locate them in the text constitutes a remarkable achievement in The Wind in the Willows. This can be evaluated as an important step toward a more ecopocentric perspective on animals which appears in later children's fantasies like Charlotte's Web.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.107-128
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• 2009

Literature had been at center-stage in the traditional grammar-translation-focused English classrooms up to the mid-twentieth century. As the Audiolingual Method and the Communicative Language Teaching have gained popularity in the English classrooms, however, literature has receded into the background of English education. The main reasons for using literary texts in the English classrooms for communication-focused English instruction need to be examined. First of all, students can come in touch with the subtle and varied uses of language through literature-based teaching. They also feel close to certain characters in the literary work and share the emotional reponses with them. They get personally involved in the plot of the story. Universal human experience and cultural enrichment are two other merits which can be conferred on students by literary texts. Such linguistic and literary experiences can be significantly integrated into the literature-based instruction. More significantly, the four language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) can be combined with one another and integrated into a literature-focused curriculum for English education. The value of literary texts in the English classrooms can be clearly demonstrated by effective ways of using such texts as Charlotte's Web for integrated instruction. The full array of benefits that literature can bring to English instruction, however, has yet to be fully realized. These potentials need to be materialized into classroom practice.