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Wine, Madness and Bad Blood: Re-Reading Imperialism in Jane Eyre (포도주, 광기 그리고 나쁜 피 -『제인 에어』 속 제국주의 다시 읽기)

  • Kim, Kyoung-sook
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.57 no.2
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    • pp.339-365
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    • 2011
  • Charlotte $Bront{\ddot{e}}^{\prime}s$ novel Jane Eyre has long been doted on as one of the canonized texts of British literature since its publication. Seemingly, this romantic novel has nothing to do with plantation based on slave trade. However, paying a keen attention to the fact that Jane's enormous inheritance results from wine plantation at a colony, this essay re-interprets Bertha's drinking and madness as evidence of imperialism. For the porter/jin Bertha and Grace Poole enjoy might have some suspicious connection with wine, the very root of Jane's great expectations. Jean Ryes' Wide Sargasso Sea, writing Jane Eyre back, records Bertha as "a white resident of the West Indies, a colonizer of European descent" (326). However, Jane Eyre, in my interpretation, describes Bertha pretty much as a black Creole. At any rate, the view that the white West Indians are tainted by miscegenation proves contemporary racism and is reflected in the text through Bertha and her mother's intemperate drinking and madness. Drinking and madness are stigmatized as the evidence of the so-called "bad blood"; embodying the stereotypes of drinking, madness, and sexual corruption, Creoles, the very inescapable product of imperialism, provide a convenient excuse for justifying imperialism for purity, civilization, and moral cleanness. In this way, Jane Eyre needs to be re-interpreted politically and historically in the context of colonialism. British imperialism pursues a tremendous amount of profits through grape plantation and wine trades; however, it cleverly leaves in the colony the associated images such as intemperate drinking and madness. Bertha, transferred from Jamaica to Britain, takes in these negative images of "savageness." Transcending the narrow confines of feminist criticism obsessed with doubling between Bertha and Jane, this essay, accordingly, reads Bertha the prisoner in the attic as the captive for perpetuating imperialism. This reading hinges upon interpreting Rochester and St John as colonizers bearing the so-called "white men's burden" to cultivate and civilize savages much like crops such as grapes and sugarcane in the colonial plantation.

John McDowell's Empiricistic Naturalism (맥도웰의 경험주의적 자연주의)

  • Kim, Yong-eun
    • Journal of Korean Philosophical Society
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    • v.143
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    • pp.67-86
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this paper is to critically investigate John McDowell's naturalism, and propose an alternative direction of inquiry in order for his naturalism to have a more explanatory cogency. McDowell's main project is to settle a philosophical anxiety that has made traditional philosophy waver between mind and world. If one stands on the world side, he would appeal to "the unintelligible given," and on the other hand, if one stands on the mind side, he would fall into anarchistic relativism. In order to relieve the traditional philosophical anxiety, what McDowell has in mind is to reintroduce an empiricistic intuition into a pragmatic conceptual setting. Although McDowell is successful in that it could avoid methodological difficulties with which traditional philosophy has faced, his discussion seems to give rise to a charge of "the Myth of the Given," presenting perceptual judgement as a model of judgement. I propose that McDowell has yet to account for the relation between perceptual and abstract judgements in a more cogent way, which has been far better explained by the experientialist account of the nature and the structure of the embodied experience.

Jefferson Society as Panopticon Mechanism: Focused on Light in August (판옵티콘 메커니즘으로 살펴 본 제퍼슨 사회: 『팔월의 빛』을 중심으로)

  • Jeong, Hyunsook
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.11
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    • pp.180-188
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to rethink the common theme that penetrates Faulkner's authorship. That is to say, does his authorship come from "being white"? To answer this question, I try to look into "otherness"/violence against others through re-reading Light in August. By borrowing the idea of "panopticon' mechanism in Michel Foucault's Surveiller et Punir, I will examine the process of justifying the violence against others, especially blacks. Through this process, I try to research the one side of Faulkner's Southern myth which was riddled with the history of pillage and violation of black people's rights. In Light in August, I will compare Jefferson society which encircles Joe Christmas to panopticon mechanism derived from Michel Foucault's Surveiller et Punir. Jefferson society as a designer of surveillance system and an executor as well ceaselessly surveils Joe Christmas's otherness/difference or blackness and tries to punish him whenever they can. With this mechanism, I try to explain that writer's repetitive narration of collective amoral behavior such as lynch comes from his anxiety and conscience about his dark side Southern history.

An Analysis on Signification and Mythical Meaning of Documentary (다큐멘터리 <이시부미>의 의미작용과 신화적 의미 분석)

  • Kim, Do-Hyeong;Oh, Dong-Il
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.757-764
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    • 2021
  • This study analyzes the signification structure and mythical meaning of Hirokazu Koreeda's documentary . In other words, by approaching the signification structure of the semiotic elements that constitute storytelling, the mythical meaning implied by is widely examined. It is to discuss the essential characteristics of the aesthetic form he is aiming for, and at the same time, to look at the aesthetic type that expands the meaning value of documentary storytelling. In particular, Hirokazu Koreeda uses typical and symbolic elements in harmoniously in the storytelling process. By applying such a dual aesthetic form, it effectively conveys the mythical meaning required in the times to the audience. Therefore, is a signification system that emits mythical meaning, and it reflects the aesthetic intention of Hirokazu Koreeda who has confidence in the imagination of the audience.

A Study on the Hollywood Youth Film Director Damien Chazelle - Centering on (2014), (2016), (2018) (미국 할리우드 청년감독 데이미언 샤젤(Damien Chazelle) 연구 - <위플래쉬>(2014), <라라랜드>(2016), <퍼스트맨>(2018)을 중심으로)

  • Kang, Nae-Young
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.105-118
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to explore the American Youth Film Director Damien Chazelle and his cinema world. Chazelle as a youth director directs three movies as (2014), (2016), (2018) in Hollywood, and represents youth directors in Hollywood. For this study, adopt two research methodologies which are 'Auteurism' and 'culture studies', and explore traits of esthetics, subject and context meaning by analyzing representative three movies. Lastly examines significance of his movies in Hollywood history. This study concludes that Chazelle is a 'Auteurism director of self-reflexivity' who has three things in common as 'narrative: success myth', 'mise-en-scene: Chazelle's world', 'self-reflexivity: Auteurism film directing'. Youth film director Chazelle is opening up the future of Hollywood as a 'Auteurism film of self-reflexivity' and the creative film directing of the youth generation.

A Study on the Expression Analysis of Social Topics in Taiwan's New Wave Movies - Focused on Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yang Teh-chang (대만 뉴웨이브 영화의 사회의제 표현 분석 연구 - 허우 샤오시엔과 에드워드 양이 중심으로)

  • Lee, Tae-hoon;ZHANG, YIRAN
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.349-358
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    • 2021
  • In the 1980s, the rapid development of Hong Kong genre films began the myth of Hong Kong's New Wave films, which had a profound impact on Taiwanese films of the same period. Later, two leading film directors, Hou Xiaoxien and Edward Yang, appeared in the process of being influenced by Taiwanese film Ganyu Wave. In this paper, we conducted research on the art style, theme style, film language, and aesthetic narrative methods of films of Hou Xiaoxien and Edward Yang against the backdrop of Taiwan's New Wave era. In addition, the visual characteristics of Taiwan's New Wave films, and the two directors have drawn suggestions on Taiwan's new generation of directors and the Taiwanese film industry, and presented a colorful film creation scheme for the creation and innovation of the new generation of filmmakers.

Kim Jihoon's , Finding a New Order from Revolutionary Logics (김지훈 작 풍찬노숙 혼혈족의 혁명논리로부터 새로운 질서 찾기)

  • Kwon, Kyounghee
    • Journal of Korean Theatre Studies Association
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    • no.48
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    • pp.127-170
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    • 2012
  • The primary concerns of this thesis simply stems from the curiosity of how the playwright Kim Jihoon lookouts a peculiar change of our spiritual, physical world. His lately work, , deals with a tribe of mixed blood who are either not shared by, or excluded from a national system, putting the writer's emphasis on some hints that informs us his outlook on the world. And these hints summon the following doubts. What is the significance of constituting a national community in this age, particularly in the time when the end of national people is frequently being referred? In strengthening national compositions, can the national identity be a pivotal element and central mechanism? Can the identity be able to exercise the hegemonic functions containing the political rights of decisions? Does the identity still dominate the various collective bodies such as genders, races, regions, professions, generations and classes etc? Finally, as the manifests, can the national identity be a desirable alternative that may cease both confusions and disorders evoked by the collision of heterogeneity? To find the answer, the study starts from a search for the origin of the complexities immanent in the mixed blood. The terror syndrome and the ambiguous identity, both residing outside the border of normality, will characterise the origin. Then I will focus both on the tribe's desperation itself and their present hope, in order. A myth of creating a country, making history and nationalism, all these are converged in their resistant ideology. This thesis ends with no clear conclusion, and yet suggesting the three presumptions the text insinuates: nomadism, a new barbarism, and the heterogeneity that awaits for our re-reading, and hoping that the three will lead the 'being-to-come' of the tribe, as an alternative of their future.

A Study on Korean Culture Education by Applying Numerical Symbols (숫자 상징을 활용한 한국 문화 교육 연구)

  • Kim, Nang-Ye
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.43
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    • pp.139-170
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    • 2016
  • Through the process, it is possible to understand the meanings of specific numerical symbols that are present in our daily lives, rather than regarding them as abstract symbols. The symbols can be efficiently utilized for cultural communication between Korean teachers and foreign learners, and between learners with different cultural backgrounds. A symbol that intensively shows Korean culture can be applied efficiently to cultural education. This is because Korean identity can be understood by means of symbols that represent Korean thoughts and emotions. Therefore, this study intends to examine the contents of symbol education applicable to Korean culture education, centering on numerical symbols amid far-reaching symbol systems. For this purpose, this study analyzed how the application of numerical symbols is presented in Korean textbooks, with the intent to organize the symbols into 4 categories of myth, folklore, taboo, and idiomatic expressions, which might be actually helpful for understanding Korean culture.

A Study on the Goddess Demeter in The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (<데메테르 찬가>에 구현된 '어머니 데메테르'의 특성과 그 신화사적 위상)

  • Jeong, Jinhee
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.51
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    • pp.73-101
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    • 2018
  • This essay deals with The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, a aetiological myth about the Eleusis Mysteria. The narrative of the hymn shows how Demeter, the goddess of grain, became the deity of the Mysteria. In the hymn, Demeter is characterized as a mother: She is the mother of Persephone and the motherlike nurse of Demophone. As the mother of Persephone and Demophone, the roles of are nursing and mediating. She care her children and linked the earth and the world below, the heaven of gods and the earth of mortals. Demeter the deity of the Mysteria by a mother. The and the maternity of Demeter is connected with patriarchal politics. Demeter in the hymn is not so much the goddess who derived her character from The Great Mother as the goddess who had been characterized the influence of Greek-patriarchy.

Implications from Shipbuilding Industry Failure Case (조선산업 실패 사례를 통해서 본 시사점)

  • Park, Hui-Yo;Han, Jeoung-Hee
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.33-38
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    • 2016
  • The Korean shipbuilding industry, which started in the 1970s with the advance of three shipbuilding companies, has been ranked as the world's largest and most successful model of the heavy and heavy chemical industry in the world since the 1990s, and has become a driving force for Korea's economic growth for several decades, including job creation and trade surplus. The domestic shipbuilding industry has won a lot of orders in favorable market environment, expanded facilities and manpower, built many ships and delivered them to shipowners, earning a lot of foreign currency and creating a 'successful myth.' However, when the global economic crisis broke out in 2008, shipbuilding in Chosun was stagnant and shipbuilding orders sharply decreased.As the facility and manpower increased in the boom period, the economy and the facilities become overcrowded as a result of the crisis, signs of a crisis in 2013 begin to appear. In 2015, three major Korean shipbuilders lost more than 6 trillion won in operating losses. Now, Korea's shipbuilding industry is facing a crisis such as massive insolvency and restructuring. Would not it have been possible to prevent the loss and restructuring of a trillion won if we recognized the recession of the global economy and understood the appropriate timing of technological innovation and prepared countermeasures against the crisis? Therefore, we analyze trends and trends of global shipbuilding industry such as Europe, China, and Japan in the competition structure of the shipbuilding industry and identify the problems of our shipbuilding industry and suggest suggestions.

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