• 영어영문학
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.1013-1034
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• 2009

The space of the Other assumes the space of Barthes's multiplicity and Foucault's transdiscursive position, and, therefore, aims at becoming the locus in which the speaking subject and the hearing subjects are supposed to communicate and constitute as if they were situated in the pscychoanalytic session. However, the wall of untranslatibility across language and cultures still exist there in the space of the Other in the form of trauma and aggressivity, as Lacan demonstrate perceptively through the reading of Kant avec Sade. In short, Lacan regards the moral commandment (to love one's neighbor as oneself) as the obstacle in the Freud's myth of transgression, and interprets this in terms of the emergence of the Other. Freud understands that the aggressivity in the subject's own heart was inherent in all humans, and that one's neighbor would be evil. Lacan goes beyond Freud and articulates that the aggressivity in the imaginary relation with the Other in the mirror stage insures that an evil inheres in the very being of humanity. A global phenomenon of the diasporic identities and hybridity, the phenomenon which has been represented by the complicated intermixture of terms which span from diaspora, postcolonialism, postnationalism. and transnationalism can be clarified, if they are put in the context of the ethics of Othering or becoming the Other. The ethics of Othering presupposes the situation in which the diasporic subjects encounter the lack of the cross-cultural negotiation and communication. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the poetics of Other and the logic of the ethics of Othering can explain the postmodern or transmodern world which has become deterritorialized, diasporic, and transnational as well as how one can encounter the results of diasporic and postcolonial double consciousness, a consciousness which is a discursive category for multicultural or cross-cultural, focusing on the concept of liminality/interstitiality

• 비교문화연구
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• 제46권
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• pp.281-296
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• 2017

안드레이 아말릭의 희곡들은 70년 소비에트 희곡사에서 전무후무한 독특한 현상이다. 그것은 소비에트 희곡이 20세기 초 러시아 아방가르드의 성과를 고의적으로 망각한 지 반세기가 지난 뒤에, 동시대 서방의 실험적인 연극 실천들로부터 철저하게 고립된 소비에트의 연극 환경 속에서 느닷없이 출현한 괴물 같은 부조리 희곡이었다. 그런데 놀랍게도 아말릭의 희곡들은 현재의 러시아 내에서 뿐만 아니라 외국의 러시아 문학 연구자들 사이에서도 거의 잊혀져가고 있다. 소비에트 체제가 붕괴한 뒤, 러시아에서는 1991년에 아말릭의 수기가 발간된 것 말고는 작품집도 나오지 않았으며 그의 작품 세계에 대한 재평가 움직임도 눈에 뜨이지 않는다. 그러나 아말릭은 반드시 온당한 평가를 받아야 하는 작가이다. 그의 희곡에 대한 연구는 고골, 흘레브니꼬프, 마야코프스키, 오베리우 등으로 이어지는 러시아 그로테스크-부조리 극문학의 혈통을 복원하는 일이다. 이 논문에서는 그 작업의 한 시도로서 아말릭 희곡의 구성 메카니즘에 관해 알아보기로 한다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.149-167
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• 2008

Korea has persisted in the notion of "ethnic nationalism." That is "one race, one people, one language" as a homogeneous entity. This social ideal of unity prevails, even in overseas Korean communities formed by voluntary and involuntary displacement in the turmoil of modern history: communities made intermittent with the Japanese colonial occupation and with postcolonial encounters with the West. Given that the Korean people suffered from the trauma of deprivation of the language caused by the loss of the nation, nation has been equated with the language. Accordingly, "these bearers of a homeland" are also firm Korean language holders. The linguistic patriotism of unity based on the intertwining of "mother tongue" and "father country" has become prevalent in the collective memory of the people of the Korean diaspora. Korean American literature has grappled with this concept of the national history of Korea and the Korean language. The aesthetics of Korean American literature has been marked by an influx of literary resources of 'Korea' in sensibilities and structure of feelings; Korean myth, folk lore, songs, humor, traditional stories, manners, customs and historic moments. An experimental use of the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, written down as pronounced, provides an ethnic flavor in the midst of the English texts. Despite its national framework of mind, however, Korean American literature as an interstitial art reveals a keen awareness of inbetweenness, and transnational hybrid identities. By exploring the complex interrelationships of cultural and linguistic boundary-crossing practices in Korean American literature, this paper argues that the poetics of the Korean diaspora challenges the closed structure of identity formation, and offers a transnational sphere to deconstruct a rigidly demarcated national ideology of "one race, one people, one language," for the world literary history.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.529-552
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• 2011

My essay aims at reading Ginsberg's "Howl" and "Kaddish" with the concept of 'shaman-prophet-poet' to illustrate the dynamic relationship between his poetics and radical politics. Throughout his widely-ranging career, Ginsberg represents himself as a poet-prophet and commands a typical rhetoric of revelation as a way of decentering Cold War orthodoxies. While well aware of the oppressive and pervasive power of the dominant post-war ideologies, he adopts 'madness' to oppose conventional political, social, and religious institutions; by way of entering into the madness of this world and actively engaging himself as a victim, he can finally heal both himself and the world. This dual function of poet characterizes his rhetoric of revelation, but it doesn't appeal to the mainstream of American critical ideology where the post-structural approach to language and subject gives a skeptical look at any account of active human agency and humanistic belief in the possibility of language. In "Howl" and "Kaddish," Ginsburg persuades the reader of the truth of his own vision through the convincing and realistic portraits of his contemporaries as well as his own mother and family. Different from his visionary predecessors such as Emerson and Whitman, Ginsberg knew the difficulty of a negotiation between history and divine vision, and attempted to imbricate his family, friends, and even the larger social and political units within his visionary experience in order to avoid naive idealism, escapism, or solipsism. Furthermore, he deconstructs the Logos of Western prophecy and replaces it with the groundless identity and the nontheistic epistemology of Buddhism, which, in turn, leads to emptying his powerful language of absolutist meaning and prevents his prophecy from becoming re-reified as divine essentialism. Ginsberg's idea of poet and poem revitalizes the skeptical view on language and literary representation of our contemporary critical community which is unwilling to engage the experimental scope of his radical prophecy.

• 영미문화
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.231-266
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• 2010

This paper explores hybridity and hybridized relations that see mixings and crossings as the first moment of multicultural society. References to hybridity often assume that the definition and orientation of the term are located within biology; that is, hybridity constitutes a mixing of two formally discrete objects. In this regard, there seems to be a dialectical preoccupation with purity that goes hand in hand with discussions of hybridity. This dialectical reference to hybridity privileges whole, complete entities as the original instance before mixing, and in this way purity becomes reified. My analysis of hybridity foregrounds mixings that occur at the level of the social, not exclusively at the level of the biological. Hybridity contexts the myth of monoculturalism in the United States and foregrounds multiculturalism as the initial context around which difference has begun to be conceived. In destabilizing the myth of racial origins, this paper attempts to establish a retroactive construction of purity, which is historically, ideologically, and ethnically examined in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Through this work composed of disparate narratives discourses, Anzaldua employs physical differences to ward off the colonial desire that has defined others as objects which are to be controlled. In this regard, this paper pursues the way that physical differences could be repositioned in terms of 'hybridity' that has been related to the cultural, historical, economical significations of borderlands. The space of borderlands is also a place marked psychologically; it will turn differences mobilized in the borderland into an acute consciousness that makes us recognize 'otherness' within ourselves. In sum, this paper attempts to elaborate the productive and creative interactions among disparate languages, classes, genders, and ideas, which will draw attention to their own interlocking nature.

• 영어영문학
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• 제60권2호
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• pp.315-338
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• 2014

In The Great Hunger (1942) Patrick Kavanagh opens an Irish postnationalist discourse. Taking advantage of historical revisionism and postcolonialism, he not only demystifies a romantic nationalist ideology rooted in rural Ireland but also searches for an autonomous literary tradition free of the Irish Literary Revival, supposedly an outcome of a colonial influence. As a farmer-poet, Kavanagh deconstructs in two ways myths of rural areas, to which the Revivalists aspire. Contrary to Revivalism, he reveals that rural Ireland is not an idealized place where national identity arises and individual spirits are restored. It is instead a cruel place where farmer Maguire, deprived of health, wealth, and love, is tortured by hard labor in the field, moral regulations imposed by the Church, and his mother's domestic authority, all of which leave him unmarried until age sixty-five. Kavanagh also challenges the Revivalist tradition, led by W. B. Yeats commonly referred to as the poet of the nation, by indicting its reliance on former colonial authority and its lack of a sense of communal autonomy, both of which are diagnosed as "provincialism" by Kavanagh. Given that modern Irish literature has been strongly colored as nationalistic during the course of anticolonial resistance, Kavanagh's critique of the Revival in The Great Hunger, whose proponents blindly beautify the lives of farmers, runs directly against the grain of the founding ideology of the Irish nation-state. His voice, like that of a whistle-blower, disclosing the harsh realities of rural Ireland, ushers in a "post"-nationalist perspective on nation and national myths in Irish poetics.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.939-958
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• 2011

Ezra Pound has an idea of poetry as a field of energy in which words interact with each other with kinetic energy. The energy field which Pound creates in his poem is analogous to the theory of electromagnetism developed by Michael Faraday and James Maxwell, who look upon the space around magnets, electric charges and currents not as empty but as filled with energy and activity. Pound argues that "words are charged with force like electricity," demonstrating that words charged with their own images or energies of positive or negative valence interact one another. This idea is similar to Faraday's concept of "line of force" which he used to represent the disposition of electric and magnetic forces in space. Pound's concept of "image" as an "intellectual and emotional complex in an instant" is remarkably consonant with the confluence of electric and magnetic fields that are coupled to each other as they travel through space in the form of electromagnetic waves. The instant profusion of conception and perception, much like that of electric and magnetic fields, enables Pound to move beyond the sequential and linear hierarchy in time and space. Particularly, Maxwell's stunning discovery that the electromagnetic waves propagate in space at 'the speed of light' has allowed Pound a relativistic sense of escape from the limitations of Newtonian absolute time and space. Pound's poetry transcends any geographical space and sequential time by rendering and juxtaposing images simultaneously. Pound was fully aware of light and electricity fundamental to what he called his world "the electric world." Pound's experiments in Imagism and Vorticism can be considered an attempt to rediscover a place for poetry in the modern world of science and technology. Almost all the appliances that we think of today as modern were laid down in the closing decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, in response to the availability of electromagnetic energy. This paper explores how Pound responded to the age of modern technology and science, examining his conception of "image" through his many analogies and similes drawn from electromagnetism. Pound's imagist poetics and poetry come to embody, not only the characteristics of the electric age in the early twentieth century, but the principles of electromagnetism the electric age is based upon.

• 영어영문학
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1119-1142
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• 2012

This article examines how Cuban-American writer Cristina García interweaves all possible experiences of Cubans through Dreaming in Cuban in terms of Bakhtin's concepts of heteroglosssia, hybridization, and the chronotope. In so doing, it reaffirms the applicability of these concepts as tools for interpreting speech genres while reevaluating and reexamining the novel in terms of Bakhtinian narratology. García identifies a sociopolitical cacophony in both America and Cuba from an open-minded perspective, striving to maintain a balance between them despite undesirable experiences with her patriotic mother and individuals in the Miami community where she worked as a journalist. In practice, she projects sociopolitical ideas onto her heroines' depictions, representing their consciousnesses in a process of interaction with others. In particular, García allows her three generations of heroines, Celia del Pino, her daughters Lourdes and Felicia, and her granddaughter Pilar Puente to live as staunchly political figures. In this way, García creates a unique novelistic situation by opposing or juxtaposing all aspects of her heroines and pitting them in a dynamic interaction with their environments. As they repeatedly tease, contradict, refute, and do battle with each other, her heroines expose various problems with the sociopolitical ideologies in both the Cuban and American contexts. García succeeds in her attempt by introducing Bakhtin's model of the "becoming" hero and depicting her heroines in dynamic interaction without her own interference. In particular, the devouring inner monologues of Pilar and her Cuban aunt Felicia are presented as the products of their extraordinarily developed self-consciousnesses, through which García attempts a multilateral approach of showing, rather than telling, her heroines' interactive inner worlds as well as introducing sociopolitical contexts. Generic factors such as epistles, diary entries, and ads copy are hybridized into Celia's and Lourdes' stories, serving the heroines' interactive contexts while filling in the many narrative gaps that result from the approach to Cuban and American history. The Bakhtinian perspective permits the interpretation that this generic hybridization enables García to cover narrative gaps resulting from the expansion of chronotopes.

• 고전문학과교육
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• 제34호
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• pp.115-147
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• 2017

이 논문에서 필자는 한국의 김창흡과 일본의 간챠잔의 시론과 한시 작품을 비교 검토했다. 본론에서 얻은 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 김창흡과 간챠잔은 의고주의 비판에 동조했다. 두 사람은 다음과 같은 점에서 일견이 일치했다. 성당시를 일방적으로 모방하지 않는다. 눈앞의 (소소하기까지 한) 경물에 눈길을 주고, 거기서 촉발된 차분한 정감을 담는다. 과장된 언어가 아닌 실다운 언어를 사용한다. 모름지기 시는 사실적이어야 한다. 두 사람의 차이점 또한 주목된다. 김창흡은 정감과 경물은 천리를 매개로 하여 작품 안에서 만나게 되며, 둘을 매개하는 언어 표현은 철학적인 성격을 띠게 된다고 했다. 반면 간챠잔은 정감과 경물을 매개하는 천리를 상정하지 않았다. 간챠잔은 경물을 섬세하게 관찰하고 세밀하게 표현하는 데 작시의 이상이 있다고 했다. 요컨대 김창흡은 경물을 통해 이치를 표현하는 데까지 나아가고, 간챠잔은 경물 자체를 표현하는 데 머문 차이가 있다. 또한 김창흡은 시는 천리의 표현이면서 국가의 정치에 대한 관심을 담아내는 고차원의 언어활동이라고 했다. 사대부로서 문학의 위상을 높이 두고, 문학이 할 수 있는 일이 많고 크다고 했다. 반면 간챠잔은 문학은 오락이라고 하면서 문학은 철학과 정치에서 멀리 떨어진 곳에 자기 고유의 영역이 있다고 보았다. 김창흡은 문학은 학문과 가까운 자리에 있다고 했다면 간챠잔은 문학은 문예여야 한다고 한 것이다. 김창흡과 간챠잔의 시학이 각자 개인의 성취라고 볼 것인가, 아니면 두 나라 한시사의 기저에 놓여 있던 특성이 두 사람을 만나서 표면화한 것인가 생각해 볼 수 있다. 필자는 두 사람의 시학은 좁게는 한시, 나아가는 두 나라 문학 일반의 특성을 표면화한 것이라고 생각한다. 전범에 매이지 말고 실경을 개성적으로 그리라는 요구는 오랜 기간 성장해 온 두 나라 문학의 특성이 드러나는 계기로 작용했다고 보는 것이다.

• 동양고전연구
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• 제59호
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• pp.157-181
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• 2015

이 논문은 19세기에 활동했던 치원(?園) 황상(黃裳, 1788~1870)이 추사(秋史) 김정희(金正喜, 1786~1856)가와 맺었던 교류 관계를 추적한 것이다. 황상에게 추사란 어떤 존재이고, 추사에게 황상이란 무슨 존재였을까? 대답은 추사에게 황상이란 존재보다는 황상에게 추사의 존재가 무엇이었느냐는 문제로 귀결된다. 이것은 황상과 다산의 관계가 사제지간으로 맺어진 매우 유의미한 존재였던 것과는 차이가 있다. 그렇지만 추사가 형제들도 반상의 신분을 떠나서 황상을 아꼈고 예우를 갖춰 시인으로 대접하였다. 추사는 황상을 다산 시학의 계승자로 인정한 비평가였고, 한편으로 문단의 패트런과 같은 존재가 되었다. 추사가와 관련된 황상의 한시는 "치원유고"에 31제(題) 34수(首), "치원소고(?園小藁)"에 14제(題) 18수(首)로 모두 45제(題) 52수(首)로 집계된다. 반면에 추사가 황상을 대상으로 지은 한시는 "완당전집"에 2제 3수, 기타 <기황수(寄黃?)> 정도가 전할 뿐이다. 황상이 추사를 비롯한 삼형제를 처음 대면한 것은 1853년 9월, 그의 네 번째 상경으로 이뤄졌다. 황상이 추사 삼형제를 만나고 시인으로 인정받는 모든 과정에는 다산 정약용의 큰 아들인 유산(酉山) 정학연(丁學淵, 1783~1859)의 역할이 컸다. 정학연은 다산가의 장남으로써 황상을 위해 여러모로 노력하였다. 황상은 추사에게 시인으로서의 역량을 보이고 자신의 시집 서문을 받으려고 노력하였다. 당시 문단에서 차지하고 있는 추사의 비중으로 볼 때, 그것은 황상 자신이 더 이상 지방의 무명 시인이 아니라 중앙문단에서도 인정받는다는 의도가 내포되어 있었기 때문으로 보인다. 추사 삼형제에 대한 황상의 시작품에는 공통적으로 교분과 우의, 그리고 각별한 존경심이 담겨 있었다. 황상이 다산가나 추사가와의 교류 과정을 보면 19세기 중엽에 이르러 중앙과 지방이라는 지역적 차별성이나 반상이라는 봉건제도의 계급적 차별을 벗어나서 상호간의 활발한 교류가 이어지고 있었던 것을 확인할 수 있었다.