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Costume Messages of Kawakubo Rei (가와쿠보 레이의 코스츔 메시지)

  • Lee, Kyung-Hee
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.139-148
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    • 2010
  • As a designer, Rei Kawakubo had become one of the most influential woman of the 20th century. Comme des Garçons, which means "like boys"-what women in the early 1980s were least supposed to be-expressed criticism of the prevailing social construct of women and, importantly, of the very concept of fashion. The press had a field day with the so-called post Hiroshima look, with its aesthetic of destruction, poverty, and hunger and with its depressing mood engendered by the use of the color black. This research divided the change of design transition on Kawakubo's fashion by the three categories. The first category was experimental pattern, the second category was esthetics of omission and the third category was innovation of body consciousness. The costume messages through these design works of Kawakubo could summarize 5 items, punk sprit, beyond sex, reality, proposal of new body consciousness and representation of black.

A Study on the Aesthetic Role of Product Design (제품디자인의 미학적 역할에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong Ji-Hyeon;Lee Seung-Yong
    • Journal of Science of Art and Design
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    • v.7
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    • pp.185-205
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    • 2005
  • This study is about the aesthetic function of product design. On the basis of aesthetic characteristics inside the products, the main purpose of this study lies in the interpretation of aesthetic function in terms of provider and receptor. To interpret the aesthetic function of product design, many attempts had been made with theorists who studied the aesthetic function in product modeling. Especially, this study is systemized from Haug's product aesthetic criticism to Vershofen, Loewy, Villeger, Buerdeck, Packard and Sombart's interpretation. Under the point of view of both provider and receptor, this study analyzes the different characteristics of interpretation on the basis of above theorist's concept. This analysis is able to demonstrate the rationales of the demands in current prestigious design and understanding of concrete design principals. Accordingly, the future study will be proceeded with interpretation of aesthetics functions in prestigious design.

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Microfinance Institutions and Legal Status: An Overview of the Microfinance Sector in Bangladesh

  • Mia, Md Aslam
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.21-31
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    • 2016
  • Although the microfinance sector in Bangladesh is mainly driven by Non-Governmental-Organizations (NGOs), there are other types of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) that also provide financial services to the poor. Despite the criticism of microfinance programs, the current poverty situation in Bangladesh still requires such programs for consistently battling poverty. Hence, the aim of this paper is to profile the microfinance sector based on their legal status and investigate any possible differences (if any) between them in various aspects. After a thorough investigation of the sector, it was found that around 33 million of the clients are being served by the mainstream MFIs (NGO and Grameen Bank) while another 10-15 million clients are served by other types of MFIs (financial cooperatives, credit unions, various ministries etc.), accounting for the one-third of the total population in Bangladesh. While the mainstream MFIs basically works with poor, other categories of MFIs are concerned with relatively wealthy clients. Looking into the financial performance and social intermediation of the MFIs, the NGO-MFIs performed better than other types of MFIs in the sector.

A Study on Calamity Index Evaluation Based on FRAT - Construction Safety - (FRAT을 이용한 재해평가지수 연구 - 건설업을 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Tae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2007
  • The construction industry by its nature retains higher level of danger where the smallest of error may lead to a major catastrophe endangering many workers and public safety as well as provoke social criticism. With the aid of quantitative statistical data on safety-related calamity analyzed till this day, this paper handled in depth the analysis of diseases other than the accidents, and selected new variable indexes that influence the indirect sections of calamity that are mostly concealed and incorporated them in a new model. For the factor selection of new calamity evaluation model, FRAT(Frequency, Recency, Amount, Type of merchandise/service)technique of customer-related management in marketing was applied, and as for the significance of each factor in the weight selection of variables. Consequently, considering the graveness of the FRAT itself through safety management experts, the related researches must be expanded.

The characteristics of confessional poetry in Robert Lowell's Life Studies (로버트 로월 "인생연구"에 나타난 고백시의 특징)

  • Yang, Hyunchul
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.253-268
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    • 2010
  • Robert Lowell is one of the major poets in the modern American poetic world. His major work, Life Studies, is a representative of confessional poetry. It presented American spiritual civilization and universality for life from the late 1950s to 1960s. It dealt with the subject of the poet's private life under the psychological pressure. Lowell described his distinctive vision of the relationship of painful world and suffering self in his poetry. An important feature of his confessional poems was the criticism on modern civilization by means of characterization. Life Studies was written as a kind of therapy to overcome his early trauma, as well as the social problems of contemporary Americans which Lowell was confronted with. Through his personal experiences, Lowell exposed and judged the collapse of traditional value and moral confusion in the society. Therefore, he is a poet who opened his own world of poetry with his poetic achievements.

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A Study on the Definition of Korean Medicine (한의학의 정의에 관한 연구)

  • Chi, Gyoo Yong
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.261-266
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    • 2019
  • In order to cope with various issues about access to public health system of Korean medicine and reformation of college curriculum and argument of pseudoscience on Korean medicine etc., a new definition of Korean medicine was devised. Two ways of approach were tried through analysis of precedent cases of definition on traditional medicine firstly and analysis on concept and logic of Korean medicine secondly. As a result, Korean medicine can be defined as a science of theories and application techniques for maintaining health and diagnosing, treating and preventing conditions、causes、prognosis of diseases or damages based on the correlative and complicated understanding about the structure and function of mind and body out of human lives under the environment and society. This definition can be used as a basis to derive legal rights or scope in area of research and education policies and social institutions of the Korean medicine and to confront scientification criticism hereafter.

Censorship and Its Impact under the Franquismo: Focusing on novels (프랑코 체제하의 검열과 그 영향 - 문학작품 중심으로 -)

  • KIM, Son-Ung
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.33
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    • pp.7-32
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    • 2013
  • This present study focuses on Franco's censorship and its influences in the works of Carmen Martín Gaite and Miguel Delibes. We know that from the years 1940's to 1970's a very harsh censorship existed in Spain. But the authors of those times were not completely obedient to the power of the Regime. Some authors attempted to find a new way to present his novels. In fact, Between Curtains of Martín Gaite shows an ideology that advocates for women who were not valued as deserved at the time. Against Franco's totalitarianism the author indirectly revealed readers an attempt to improve the situation of women, criticizing the tradition. On the other hand, Delibes sought a new way of presenting the novel in Five Hours with Mario to avoid Franco regime's censorship. The author hid behind a character that represents Franco's politics to criticize the society of that time. The both authors as representatives of contemporary Spanish literature demonstrate that the oppression does not restrict the authors' ability to create unexpected works.

Social Criticism Reproduced in Chinese Realism Animation (중국 사실주의 애니메이션에서 재현된 사회적 비판)

  • Yao, zong-bin;Lee, hyun-seok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.47-48
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    • 2019
  • 중국 애니메이션 영화 는 중국의 빠른 산업화와 경제발전에 따라 도시 빈민층의 사회적 소외와 뒤틀린 욕망을 묘사하였다. 세계 최대 경제국가로 성장한 중국은 그 이면에 많은 사회적 문제가 야기 되고 있으며, 본 영화는 이러한 사회현상을 은유와 비유를 통해 표현하였고, 영화를 통해 사회적 비판과 여론의 장으로 끌어내었다. 를 대상으로 한 본 논문은 문헌 연구와 사례 연구를 통해 에서 재현된 사회적 비판에 대한 분석을 시도한다. 이를 통해 중국의 사실주의 애니메이션의 특성을 도출한다.

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A Post-de Manian Look at Romantic Self-Consciousness and the Wordsworthian Case: History, the Subject, (Lyric) Poetry (드 만 이후 낭만적 자의식 다시 보기와 워즈워스의 경우 -역사, 주체, (서정)시)

  • Sohn, Hyun
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.60 no.2
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    • pp.339-363
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    • 2014
  • This essay reconsiders the subject of Romantic self-consciousness in a post-de Manian perspective. Self-consciousness is an attribute of Romantic lyricism whereby the poetic speaker I remains conscious of how (s)he feels or lives here and now. This self-reflective feature of Romantic poetry has been controversially interpreted either as self-centered solipsism or as self-expressive objectivism. The question is stirring more disputes among Romantic critics after the advent of New Historicism and Feminism. These two historicistic approaches reprove Romantic poetry for a lack of the sense of history and ascribes it to Romantic self-consciousness. They argue that Romantic poets in general displace historical materiality into an object of internal consciousness, so negating absurd social realities "merely to gain their own immortal soul." This essay targets to overcome this negative stance on Romantic self-consciousness with a "subversive" return to Paul de Man's criticism of Romantic internality.

The Dilemma of Cultural Propaganda and Academic Research: New historical drama "Hai Rui's Dismissal" in Shanghai

  • Zhang, Sheng
    • Journal of East-Asian Urban History
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.87-111
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    • 2020
  • Since 1949, The first generation leader MAO zedong liked reading history books and historical biography, It led to criticism and evaluation of history and character be targeted in every movement, before the February Outline(er yue ti gang) had been revoked, the Shanghai society discussed "Hai Rui's Dismissal "basically" within the "learning and using Chairman MAO's works(huo xue huo yong mao zhu xi zhu zuo)" category, with the deterioration of the national political situation, based on the historical drama "Hai Rui's Dismissal" discussions, the dilemma of cultural propaganda and academic research appeared.